Army, Navy, Air Force, and Cyber—Is it Time for a Cyberwarfare Branch of Military?

IA Newsletter, Vol. 12, No. 1 ^ | Spring 2009

[rabscuttle385]

Interesting read.

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[ShadowAce]

[PhilDragoo]

Unrestricted Warfare, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, (Beijing: PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House, February 1999)

Russian hackers target U.S., Europe for profit and politics

[McGruff]

I could do that. Where do I sign up?

[SJSAMPLE]

Air Force has the smartest guys and they have a HUGE head start over any other service.

This, from an Army guy.
It must be The End Times ;)

[McGruff]

Our enemies are everywhere.

[bamahead]

Reporting for duty, sir!

[Terabitten]

I’ve believed for years that we should do away with the current system of four military branches. One service - The United States Armed Forces. All aviators should belong to the Air Branch...all soldiers to the Ground branch... and all boats and ships to the Naval Branch, all special operations types to the Special Operations Branch, and what the hell, a Cyber Warfare branch. One uniform, one centralized logistics branch, and ease of movement back and forth in “branch immaterial” positions.

It’ll never happen, of course, but I can dream.

[MeganC]

I can just imagine boot camp for the US Cyberforce...

"What's the UNIX code for a remote server shutdown, Maggot?"

It'd also be the only one of the uniformed services that wouldn't have a physical training standard. I just can't imagine pudgy little geeks doing push ups and chin ups.

[allmendream]

USAF vet bump to that! ;)

[KarlInOhio]

It'd also be the only one of the uniformed services that wouldn't have a physical training standard. I just can't imagine pudgy little geeks doing push ups and chin ups.

First person shooter games for their firing range time.

[CheneyChick]

Bingo! I still think Chloe could kick her a$$, tho.

[Our man in washington]

You’d probably still need to have a physical standard, since this Cyberforce could potentially be deployed to a combat zone.

They might want to make the standard a little lower, though.

Designing the boot camp would be interesting. I’d keep the marching and the physical training and the boot shining. One thing I’d modify is that I’d try to have exercises that throw them off balance. For example, they return to the barracks after class and discover all the beds are unmade and clothes are thrown on the floor and there’s an inspection in an hour.

I’d also take a page from the F.B.I. training and give them tests on written material when they are tired. In a big cyberattack, computer people might have to work some very long shifts.

[OldMissileer]

There is a pretty darn big agency, the Defense Information Systems Agency, that should be the lead in this.

They already exist and spend lots of money so why not do the “Information Systems” thingy that is already in their name?

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[devolve]

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LOL!

You have got it all going on potlatch!

[potlatch]

I.M. wouldn’t composite today. Borg has 47Frames. I had to make the Phaser BG TP. Next time I’ll find a ‘moon-walker’ for the bottom right.