Speculating on the Kyrgyz DOS attack

The Infowar Monitor “reports”:http://www.infowar-monitor.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2149&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 that Kyrgyzstan is under a massive denial of service attack, flatlining three of four ISPs in the country. The attacks are suspected to be both political and commissioned.

The cost and manpower requirements to black or brown out a nation’s Internet access is exceedingly small while the potential payoff exceedingly large. Consider the following: Last month, the US and NATO “closed their Pakistani supply route”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/world/asia/31military.html (which accounts for 80 percent of supplies to the war in Afghanistan) becoming entirely dependent on Central Asia. However, since US bases in Uzbekistan were closed in 2005, and Russian bases in Tajikistan preclude any American ones, only “Manas Air Base”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manas_Air_Base in Kyrgyzstan remains. During the original invasion of Afghanistan the technology-dependent American military was plagued by insufficient bandwidth. Eight years later I am assuming this is no longer a problem, but for speculative purposes I wonder how a DOS attack on a bandwidth-starved region such as Central Asia or Africa could affect a technology-dependent military? I do not want to insinuate that the Kyrgyz DOS attack was directed at US/NATO supply lines. Rather, the coincident events caused me to consider future situations as the “bandwidth gap”:http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/supplement/24295.html is more pronounced in the less stable (and therefore less connected) regions of the globe. Maybe someone with a background in computer security like “selil”:http://selil.com/ could give us some perspective on this issue.