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| US Air Force to take to the ether |
| 2007-09-04 |
| The rest of the article is about the recent Chinese attacks on the unclassifed Pentagon network and German government computers, the Russian attack on Estonian government networks, and limitations on BlackBerry use. But this bit piqued my interest The US Air Force will soon create a cyber war-fighting command aimed at improving defensive and offensive capabilities to counter such asymmetric threats. “We want to ensure that we can operate freely in the domain,” says Major General Charles Ickes, another senior Air Force official involved with cyberspace issues. “On the other hand . . . it is seen by everybody in the defence department as a war-fighting domain and you must have offensive capability.” Gregory Garcia, the assistant secretary for cyber security at the department of Homeland Security, says the number of cyber incidents reported to the department’s computer readiness team so far this year is 35,000. That compares to 4,100 for the whole of 2005. The Defence Science Board, an independent Pentagon advisory group, will soon publish a study on non-conventional military challenges that will examine cyber threats. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 I am SOOOOOOO There! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2007-09-04 21:28 |
| #3 The Air Force has been casting about for new missions for some time and the Cyber Command appears to be one. They have been talking about this for at least a year. The academy graduate fighter pilot generals who constitute the bulk of AF leadership are frustrated by a lack of credible opponents to justify buying enough F-22s to keep the fighter pilots happy. The AF started shrinking when the Berlin Wall went down and is still shrinking. PBD 723 is causing pain throughout the force. The rise of armed UAVs is exacerbating their pain. Why spend millions of dollars to train a fighter pilot when you can get the same results from sergeant sitting at a game console flying an armed UAV half a world away? |
| Posted by: RWV 2007-09-04 19:41 |
| #2 actually, it wouldn't suprise me to find out the guys who did this were the same guys who hit Fred. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2007-09-04 19:06 |
| #1 Fred, meet your new job. :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-09-04 16:32 |