Monday, April 20, 2015

The Pentagon's new cyber attack plan: 'Blunt force trauma' - Philip Ewing - POLITICO#ixzz3XmvqPRST#ixzz3XmvqPRST

The Pentagon's new cyber attack plan: 'Blunt force trauma' - Philip Ewing - POLITICO#ixzz3XmvqPRST#ixzz3XmvqPRST: “How do you make an enemy air defense system go completely blank in the first minute of the conflict?” Welsh asked reporters last week. “How do you make a [surface to air missile] radar show a thousand false targets that all look real so you don’t know where the real package is in the middle of that? How do you keep enemy surface to surface missiles from ever launching — or [fly] halfway to their target and then turn around and go home?”

The military services devote a lot of effort to defending their networks against cyberattacks and supporting the intelligence community, he said, but so far not enough pursuing cyber weapons they could wield the way they now deploy fighter squadrons or infantry battalions.