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What is the greatest threat to U.S. national security? Some say it is our national debt and a weak economic recovery. Others assert that it is the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and long-range delivery means. There are those, including high-level defense officials, who believe it is
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Date:
1/8/2013
InsideDefense.com reported last week that Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall has directed a Defense Science Board study of future electronic-warfare challenges and opportunities. Electronic warfare (or EW) is the use of radio-frequency signals to achieve military effects. It can be as gross
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Date:
12/17/2012
The most fundamental mission of each of this nation’s security organizations, whether civil or military, is the protection of the homeland and the American people from attack. Traditionally, that has meant protection against hostile military forces that might blockade our sea lanes, and our shores,
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7/18/2012
For more than four years, the United States, along with some allies, has been at war with Iran. It is not the kind of war we have come to expect in this region. There was no official declaration of hostilities, U.N. resolution or act of Congress. The war doesn’t involve the use of the armed forces
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Date:
6/1/2012
On November 14, Defense News ran an interesting story by Asia correspondent Wendell Minnick about how the General Staff of China's People’s Liberation Army (PLA) manages cyber warfare activities. Minnick quoted Australian security expert Desmond Ball as speculating that the General Staff
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Date:
2/27/2012
Some security experts think that cyber attacks could be the biggest "asymmetrical" threat the joint force faces in this decade. America's military is now so dependent on information networks to accomplish missions that any adversary who can exploit, disrupt or destroy those networks poses a danger
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2/21/2012
Pentagon policymakers were smart to wait two weeks before disclosing the program changes that will accompany the administration's new national security strategy. The political system needs some time to assimilate the emerging strategic framework before it hears what revised military priorities
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1/6/2012
Even as the scale and intensity of China's cyber-assault on U.S. information networks reaches unprecedented levels, the intelligence community is closing in on which organizations and individuals are the key perpetrators. Forward-thinking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of Defense William
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Date:
12/22/2011
The debate in the West over the future of warfare has been going on for almost two decades now. Two questions dominate the debate. The first is the extent to which information technologies (IT), overall, but specifically cyber capabilities, would shape future warfare. The second is the extent of
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Date:
11/1/2011
The Pentagon is about to publish its long awaited strategy for cyber warfare, the unclassified portions of which are likely to be made public sometime next month. In so doing, the Department of Defense (DoD) is acknowledging what all observers of the IT revolution have known for years: cyberwar
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Date:
6/1/2011
In most ways, the United States is safer today than at any time in nearly a half century. Nothing on the list of serious threats to U.S. security compares with that once posed by the Soviet Union with its tens of thousands of nuclear weapons. There is concern in the near-term about the potential
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Date:
8/3/2010
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently turned what had been a simmering debate over the future of the U.S. military into a full-fledged conflagration. In a series of speeches he questioned both the long-term viability and the affordability of the current force structure. He noted the operational
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Date:
6/7/2010