America’s Cyber Command
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Since America’s infrastructure depends on the safety and stability of our information networks, it makes sense that the government would have a military cyber force dedicated to it’s defense. Here’s why:
According to the official, the program would not be on the level of a separate combatant command. Instead, the likely recommendation would be to create a “sub-unified command” that would focus entirely on combating cyber warfare but exist under the current Strategic Command.
A senior Pentagon official revealed that cyber attacks against military computer networks have “increased significantly … more than doubled” in the past six months. The attacks were said to include “thousands of probes a day” against Web sites associated with the Defense Department.
How important are our information networks? Just ask anyone who endured 9/11 or a hurricane. The first thing to go is communications and the computer systems that control energy distribution, waste management, water purification, etc. Imagine the havoc created by a hacker who can control or disrupt these networks and the services dependent on them.
The downside of the government having their nose inserted into cyber security is that they will inevitably be dealing with independent businesses, state sovereignty issues, etc. The government already knows too much.
Still, as part of national defense, America can’t be brought to it’s knees by a pimply Russian or Chinese kid employed by their governments to gather information, or worse, do economic or physical harm.
Wizbang: Kim Priestap
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Why Does Obama Hate The Military?
While he wants to socialize medicine for everyone else, he wants vets to pay for theirs. Hmmm…
Obama’s Iraq-Afghanistan-America Brigade Movement 3-Card Monte
Monday, March 9th, 2009Here’s how you pull a Three-Brigade Monte:
President Obama promised to drawdown Iraqi troops. He was going to pull out a brigade from Iraq.
So, he does–he withdraws the troops from Iraq and puts them in Afghanistan. That means there are less troops in Iraq and more in Afghanistan, right?
Well, not exactly. Then, the Commander-in-Chief deploys another brigade from America to Iraq.
So really, there’s no drawdown at all.
While everyone was looking to Rush Limbaugh and whatever else is being used as a diversion, President Obama moved troops for POLITICAL GAIN while not drawing down troop levels in Iraq at all.
Greyhawk, who I linked to about this over the weekend (but you guys need to see this today because it’s a huge story that the MSM is unlikely to cover), has more:
While that story might be obscure, it’s anything but insignificant. The diversion of the Stryker Brigade (one of two that were then scheduled to replace the two currently in Iraq) to Afghanistan made headlines as the President appeared at Camp Lejeune to announce his Iraq drawdown and Afghanistan “surge”. As noted here at the time, that followup report – if accurate – “exposes everything you’ve heard about troop deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan over the past two weeks as an absolute hoax on the American public.”
Read the first entry in this series for details of the preparations made by the Stryker Brigade for an Iraq deployment – 10-month Arabic language schools being just part of the training rendered useless by a reassignment to a country where the locals don’t speak it.
Of course, “intensive, 10-month Arabic language training” and “exercises… where they had to help their commanders negotiate with native-speaker role players” were now useless – but if they were no longer needed in Iraq, so be it.
But they were needed in Iraq – just not as badly as the Obama administration needed to make it appear that troops initially slotted for Iraq were going to Afghanistan instead – seemingly making good on a key campaign promise. So with much fanfare the Iraq drawdown (consisting entirely of the Stryker Brigade)/Afghanistan surge (Strykers plus a Marine unit) was announced, and subsequent polls indicated Americans were wildly enthusiastic about the idea.
And this, anti-war zealots, is called a scam. But I’m figuring you guys won’t be saying much about it because well, the fact that you voted for President Obama to begin with tells me you enjoy a good scam.
Greyhawk
Sunday, March 8th, 2009Obama’s Troop Shifts = No Iraq Draw Down
Would think this would be a headline, no?
