Rebuking the Trump Administration for its “passivity,” Congress is pressing the Department of Defense to engage in “active defense” in cyberspace against Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. A new…
Read moreMilitary cyber operations have been normalized to the point that there is now a defined career path for would-be cyber warriors in the U.S. Air Force and a formal curriculum…
Read moreMilitary planners should not anticipate that the United States will ever dominate cyberspace, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a new doctrinal publication. The kind of supremacy that might…
Read moreThe U.S. Army this week published an overview of future military cyberspace operations. See The U.S. Army Concept for Cyberspace and Electronic Warfare Operations 2025-2040, TRADOC Pamphlet 525-8-6, 9…
Read moreWhat constitutes an act of war in the cyber domain? It’s a question that officials have wrestled with for some time without being able to…
Read moreAre offensive cyber operations an act of war? “I would say specifically to your question what defines an act of war [in the cyber domain]– that has not been defined.
Read moreThe superiority of the US military in cyberspace, which once could be taken for granted, is gradually eroding, says an Army Field Manual published this week. In…
Read moreWithin living memory, even a passing mention of cyber weapons or U.S. offensive activities in cyberspace was deemed sufficient to justify national security classification. Now, although the Obama Administration generally…
Read moreWhen Gen. Keith Alexander became the new director of the National Security Agency in 2005, “his predecessor, Mike Hayden, stepped down, seething with suspicion”– towards Alexander. As told by Fred…
Read moreChanges in the cyber threat environment require the Army to be able to rapidly reprogram its own military software, a newly updated Army Regulation directs. “Warfare is rapidly…
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