Hackers

What if Russia, China, the US or any other power started teaching all their children to be hackers and computer scientists. Could they develop the refined skills to jump a generation ahead of other countries. Of course, in countries like Russia or China it would be a lot easier to hide these efforts or convince the public to get on board.  Would America respond by forcing our next generation to be programmers and coders (probably not). So image a country with millions of hackers, organized like an army, and state-of-the-art technology.  They figure out one seemingly reasonable skill, which is to  make it impossible to trace their hackers back to their country.  We already know that hackers can infiltrate the highest levels of our government and institutions, and just imagine if their skills continue to outpace ours. What would happen if they attacked, on mass, against as many US based locations as possible. They might not bring down the Pentagon, but I'm betting that their army (with millions of data soldiers, and unlimited resources) could cause enough chaos to last years and serious weaken our country. How many small business  could withstand a cyber attack from a nation, and with their army they could target everyone.

And if we couldn't "prove" which country is responsible, what we would do? China insists is Russia and vice versa. What than, sanctions? Both countries are already working hard to become self-sufficient and could absorb the worst possible sanctions (and our America First economic policy only weakens our leverage). Would we invade and risk nuclear war?