by John Hayward
20 Apr 2015
In a recent press conference reported by Politico, Air Force Chief of Staff Mark Welsh described the goal of next-generation military electronic operations as cyber weapons that could inflict “blunt force trauma” on the enemy. The Pentagon, it appears, wants potential aggressors to know the United States is ready to strike back hard in online conflicts.
“How do you make an enemy air defense system go completely blank in the first minute of the conflict? 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?” said Welsh. “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 damage to both military and civilian networks from a full-blown clash between, say, the U.S. and China would be incredible, with everything from financial networks to power grids going down.
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