Archive for the ‘Future Warfare’ Category
Congress Should Launch All-Star Commission to Examine Cyber Threats
A report issued last month by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission concluded: ”China is likely using its maturing computer network exploitation capability to support intelligence collection against the U.S. Government and industry by conducting a long term, sophisticated, computer network exploitation campaign.” For the last decade, China has been conducting ”hacker attacks” and network intrusions against U.S. Government and private sector computer networks. In June 2008, Congressman Frank Wolf (VA-10th) revealed that computers in his office had been hacked; authorities concluded that the attacks originated in China. Last May, I argued in The Washington Times that our lack of a declaratory cyber deterrence policy makes us weaker as a nation by…
New Cyber Attacks Showcase Need for Cyber Deterrence Policy
The AP is reporting on a new round of cyber attacks that targeted computer networks at the Treasury Department, Federal Trade Commission and Secret Service. Other targets are reported to have included the White House, Pentagon, and New York Stock Exchange. W. David Gardner of InformationWeek reports that the attack was even more expansive, including more than 25 targets:
Law enforcement officials in the U.S. and South Korea were stepping up their efforts Wednesday to halt a rash of denial of service cyber attacks against more than 25 government agencies and companies. While the source of the attacks wasn’t pinpointed as of Wednesday morning, officials said they suspected the attacks originated in North Korea or from groups…
The Obama Iraq Documentary: Whatever the Politics Demand
Here’s an excellent video, chronicling Sen. Obama’s many positions on Iraq.
New Media, Information Warfare and the U.S. Army
David Axe posted a very interesting piece today in The Danger Room. He examines the emerging role of new media in the U.S. Army:
Senior Army leaders have fallen behind the breakneck development of cheap digital communications including cell phones, digital cameras and Web 2.0 Internet sites such as blogs and Facebook, Army Secretary Pete Geren said at a trade conference on July 10. That helps explain how “just one man in a cave that’s hooked up to the Internet has been able to out-communicate the greatest communications society in the history of the world — the United States,” Geren said, according to Inside Defense. (Subscription required.)
“It’s a challenge not only at home, it’s a challenge in recruiting,…
Defense Transformation and the Next Administration
As the general election gears up, questions surrounding defense and national security are likely to dominate the national discussion. While defense transformation remains an important issue for the Defense Department, it will most likely be lost in policy debates about Iraq and Iran. But defense transformation is not an arcane policy issue; rather it is critical to ensuring that the U.S. retains its preeminent position in world affairs. Simply put, transformation refers to the optimal alignment and development of capabilities, organizations and processes in support of the warfighter to reflect the ever-changing nature of warfare. It is an issue that will confront the next president of the United States.
Current U.S. military operations are a case in point. The Defense Department must…