"Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Cyberspace Wars"
The New York Times, May 28
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29cyber.html
--Obama expected to sign classified order in coming weeks that will create the military cybercommand.
The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare. The military command would complement a civilian effort to be announced by President Obama on Friday that would overhaul the way the United States safeguards its computer networks. The main dispute has been over whether the Pentagon or the National Security Agency should take the lead in preparing for and fighting cyberbattles. Under one proposal still being debated, parts of the N.S.A. would be integrated into the military command so they could operate jointly.
Comments (4)
We need a new branch of the military as much as we needed an Office of Homeland Security. I am sure that there are more people out there like me, who asked, "Isn't that what the defense department is for?" We can have a cyberspace branch of the military, however, planning on conducting warfare over cyberspace is just corrupting what is the one place that the people of the world can come together without ideas of nationalism. IMAGINE
I think I phrased this wrong. It kind-of reads like a double-negative.
If you feel that OUR REPRESENTATIVES SHOULD HAVE SOME SAY in the creation of this new branch, your answer should be "thumbs-up."
If you think they (and we) should mind our own business and let the Pentagon do whatever it likes, with no oversight, your answer should be "thumbs-down."
A little out of place, I think, it appears to me to be more of a HLS function. Our already too big military should be cut by about 90% of it's present mass. It is already a serious threat to our own security.
For crying out loud! DON'T give the government anything else to do. Half the agencies or more should be REPEALED.