A top US military expert, Colonel Charles Williamson, has called for the US to develop military botnets to attack enemy computers.

In a paper here, Williamson said that America needs an af.mil robot network (botnet) that can direct such massive amounts of traffic to target computers that they can no longer communicate.

He called for the ability to carpet bomb in cyberspace to create a deterrent.

Williamson said that the idea of having fortresses was out of date and the US must have a powerful, flexible deterrent that can reach far outside our fortresses and strike the enemy while he is still on the move.

He claimed that the best method of attack is a Botnet which can destroy computers or force people to switch them off.

All the army needs to do is built a botnet of its own using its own resources. He suggests using all those computers the Air Force discards every year and replacing their hard-drives with low-power flash drives, then installing them in any available space every Air Force base can find. X