{"id":3612,"date":"2011-07-15T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2011-07-15T18:52:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T22:52:24","slug":"us-cyber-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/07\/15\/us-cyber-command\/","title":{"rendered":"US Cyber Command & Augmented Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Nope.\u00a0 It’s not a reference to some long-forgotten 80s movie.\u00a0 On June 23, 2009, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates signed a memorandum creating US Cyber Command, a separate sub-command unit of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM<\/a>) headed by a four-star general, (currently, Gen. Keith B. Alexander). And, despite all its digital dualist rhetoric (exemplified by the rampant use of terms like “cyberspace” and “cyber-attackers”), Cyber Command should viewed as a major step toward the augmentation of warfare<\/strong>.\u00a0 With the launch of Cyber Command, the US has quietly moved toward developing new first strike capacities that may, ultimately, prove more strategically important than even the nation’s nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n

While most media coverage has tended to focus on Cyber Command’s defensive postures (e.g., protecting classified data, securing the power grid, etc.), Cyber Command is also developing offensive capabilities to target and cripple other nations’ communication, transportation, and utility grids.\u00a0 This demonstrates that, in the augmented warfare of the future, an effective assault on atoms will also require a simultaneous assault on bits<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Cyber Command’s capacities, however, are far from fully developed.\u00a0 A recent report<\/a> by the Government Accountability Office concluded that the Cyber Command \u201chas not fully defined long-term mission requirements and desired capabilities to guide the services\u2019 efforts to recruit, train and provide forces with appropriate skill sets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch CBS sensationalize cyber-warfare and make the digital dualist fallacy of comparing cyberspace to land and sea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nope.\u00a0 It’s not a reference to some long-forgotten 80s movie.\u00a0 On June 23, 2009, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates signed a memorandum creating US Cyber Command, a separate sub-command unit of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) headed by a four-star general, (currently, Gen. Keith B. Alexander). And, despite all its digital dualist rhetoric (exemplified by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9967,425],"tags":[2324,12071,12078,12076,12082,12077,12073,10447,12079,12081,880,103,12080,12070,12074],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-links","tag-augmented-reality","tag-cyber-command","tag-cyber-attack","tag-cyber-warfare","tag-cyberspace","tag-cyberwarfare","tag-defensive","tag-digital-dualism","tag-gao","tag-gen-keith-b-alexander","tag-hacking","tag-military","tag-robert-gates","tag-us-cyber-command","tag-warefare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}