Pearl Harbor

Massive attack on the military and governmental (command and control) information infrastructures, with perhaps collateral attacks against important civilian networks that aid and support military, governmental, and social stability.

Hashishim

Trend along the line of the opposition force altering, damaging, or destroying data and services in a protracted campaign; attacks are unannounced, leaving the question of trust completely unsettled.

Pearl Harbor	Hashishim
Preemptive	Covert
'Sneak'	Perversion; end of 'trust'
Beginning of the conflict	Is the conflict
Surprise lost once engagement initiated	Continual moral and material surprise
Direct force	Espionage, sabotage, coercion
Not 'subtle'	Insidious
Attacks force projection capability	Attacks decision capacity, command structure
Government targets or collateral infrastructure	Opportunistic targets; greater degrees of separation; attacks dependencies civil/military
Massive	Long term
Concentrated	Cumulative
Automated	Human oriented
Significant resources	Leveraged
Intense effort	Selective effort
Centralized	Decentralized
Coordinated	Uncoordinated
Hierarchical	Heterarchical
Sponsored	Independent
Intelligence 'hard' targets	Soft targets; open source intelligence
Crisis management	Defense-in-depth
Top down approach	Bottom up approach
Oriented around LEA/IC/MIL solutions	Free market solutions