I disagree with the categorization of this attack as 'military' grade, though upon reflection this is largely semantic. By military you refer to the degree and purpose of the accomplished action.

But it isn't warfare proper in my mind. Military action has a nationality to it, and we don't know who it was [star]. Military action has an opposition with its own capacity for action, and Iran is not hacking at the reverse.

Maybe it's that I have a category in my mind for open cyberwarfare, and its character is absurd. It seems to me that the endgame is quick: disable the power or take control of computers and fill the country's network with garbage. That'd be a precise and deadly trick to pull off. Ah, there's another distinction then: this was a subtle effect designed solely for sabotage.

It's not outright war on their system. Outright cyberwarfare could only be a prelude to military action. Incapacitate a nation like the US for a mere 24 hours, and imagine what military possibilities that could yield...

Hopefully the cyberwarfare to come will be cyber-espionage--little tricks and turns, subtle but powerful changes--instead of cyber assault.

[star] except that it was probably the US or Israel. I'd bet it was the US, any takers?

[subfootnote] is the escaping of asterisks really turned off?