Hollywood is going crazy about the capitulation by Sony Picture Entertainment. If you haven't heard the story, the short version is that they caved in to N. Korean hackers.
What Hollywood and the news media are missing is that Sony isn't a mult-national in the US style. They're a Japanese firm with a few US figure heads.
They have Asian sensibilities and will act accordingly.
That means that they will move to save "face". They will not readily accept being embarrassed publicly.
That's why Sony agreed to the demands of these "terrorist" hackers.
The US military would be advised to make note of this incident and consider it carefully in future moves into the Pacific. You push a country into a corner in that region of the world and the reaction will be totally different than what we would normally expect. Historically many of our toughest fights have occurred in this region and I expect the trend to continue into the future.
Saving face, not bringing shame to the name of your family and a whole slew of what many progressive Americans would consider old fashioned values are alive and well there. Yeah. I hope the US military is paying attention.
