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The problem is such traditional calculus doesn't apply anymore in cyberwar.

For one thing, your big "guns" weaken your own infrastructure, since you use about the same technology that your adversary uses too. Secondly, your guns can be copied without many problems and then suddenly they are directed at you and your weakened infrastructure.

At some point, someone will use their Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo, and that'll be the end of that.

Thus ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity for the termites scuttling through the ruins of human civilization. Sounds like a plan.

That's obscenely naive.