The Chinese are the pre-eminent adversary in the minds of most cyber threat alarmists. In the past six months, they’ve been called out for industrial espionage and accused of embedding backdoors into commercial routers. Now, in a report by Northrup Grumman (pdf) for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, several scenarios are spelled out explicitly detailing how known and suspected Chinese accesses into United States infrastructure will be used in what is called “paralysis warfare”. Looking only from a military lens, the ability to stymie logistical trains utilizing unclassified infrastructure will cripple nearly all long term military operations. The impact on non-combatants remains unclear but bleak.