British shipping ports are particularly weak, as are other sections of their infrastructure. Britain is just over the edge of being susceptible to informational warfare techniques, making direct attacks on their financial resources possible. Targeting of key mineral reserves in South Africa, simple to accomplish by aiding partisan forces already there, damages the American military machinery. All it takes to pick targets is a serious analysis of your opponent's economy. What is crucial to remember is that while these targets may indeed be 'obvious' to the targeted power, there are so many targets to hit that they just can't protect them all.
Rebels have time on their side, and guards anywhere get lax.
Even the process of checking targets serves to wear down the opponent, not to mention what the cost will be for them to maintain security levels at such a vast array of targets. Terror Terror attacks, which have yet to be clearly defined by either the U.N. or the U.S. Department of State, are potentially radically different with the introduction of technology. The use of false diplomatic maneuvers to cover for some other hostile action has become the province of the larger players, based on their usually superior intelligence capabilities. Control, Command, and Leadership Part of the beauty of such advances is that multiple groups can be operating independently and be effective enough to confuse the picture sufficiently to give intelligence analysts headaches. This is more than adequate, as the power to destroy is the power to control.