Susuto

you’re right in this instance; however, hackers are actually very useful in a war. As an example, during the first Gulf War Americans set up intercept stations along the Saudi border, and hacked encrypted communication channels between Iraqi commanders and central command - they would literally ask the Iraqis what was wrong, posing as a higher up, “So … what supplies do you guys really need?” And then intercept that communication, or wipe the request from whatever tracking system the Iraqi’s had, and make sure that whatever the division needed, it never ever got. They would also demoralize them by sending spoofed communications from the commanders talking about how desperate the situation was, etc … eventually helping along the mass surrenders we heard so much about (in both wars)

In my example case, they iraqi army had very little access to any intranet, much of this was done over radio (though not all of it). In different situations though, the same techniques could be used purely against private e-mail systems or the like. It takes a lot to get access to the systems, but as the battle lines move in a war one can either vampire-tap the necessary lines, or often just grab the encrypted wireless signals, both of which would make actual military hackers incredibly useful for both intel and mind-games; though all of this would still be unavailable to the “masses” of people doing idiotic DDOS attacks against web-sites.