1. President Obama is very demanding on his Secy of Defense. He already has some very fine professionals as his Defense Secy starting from Robert Gates, Leon Panetta an ex CIA Chief, A recipient of two Purple Hearts while an infantry squad leader in the Vietnam War Chuck Hagel and now the 25th Def Sec Ash Carter.
2. Carter's Bio is very impressive. Outside of his government service, Secretary Carter was most recently a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a lecturer at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He also was a Senior Executive at the Markle Foundation, helping its Economic Future Initiative advance technology strategies to enable Americans to flourish in a networked global economy. Previously Secretary Carter served as a Senior Partner of Global Technology Partners focused on advising major investment firms in technology, and an advisor on global affairs to Goldman Sachs. At Harvard’s Kennedy School, he was Professor of Science and International Affairs and Chair of the International & Global Affairs faculty. He served on the boards of the MITRE Corporation, Mitretek Systems, and Lincoln Laboratories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and as a member of the Draper Laboratory Corporation. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.
Secretary Carter earned his bachelor’s degrees in physics and in medieval history, summa cum laude, at Yale University, where he was also awarded Phi Beta Kappa; and he received his doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He was a physics instructor at Oxford, a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University and M.I.T., and an experimental research associate at Brookhaven and Fermilab National Laboratories.
3. Within the Dept of Defense he has been DoD’s chief operating officer, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (ATL), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, Secretary Carter also served on the Defense Policy Board, the Defense Science Board, and the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board.
4. Yesterday Ash Carter delivered a widely awaited and anticipated speech in Stanford University. I am reproducing the speech and Q&A below.
5. Mostly the talk is on Cyber. For the first time that his Dept was hacked by Russians came up : Earlier this year, the sensors that guard DoD’s unclassified networks detected Russian hackers accessing one of our networks. They’d discovered an old vulnerability in one of our legacy networks that hadn’t been patched.
6. As Carter was speaking, the Department of Defense released online its new cyber strategy based on three primary missions: to defend the Pentagon's networks; to defend the United States and its interests against cyberattacks of "significant consequences"; and to provide integrated cyber capabilities to support military operations and contingency plans.
6. STRATEGIC GOALS AND KEY IMPLEMENTATION OBJECTIVES of the Cyber Strategy is :
I. BUILD AND MAINTAIN READY FORCES AND CAPABILITIES TO CONDUCT CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS
II. DEFEND THE DOD INFORMATION NETWORK, SECURE DOD DATA, AND MITIGATE RISKS TO DOD MISSIONS
III. BE PREPARED TO DEFEND THE U.S. HOMELAND AND U.S. VITAL INTERESTS FROM DISRUPTIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE CYBERATTACKS OF SIGNIFICANT CONSEQUENCE.
IV. BUILD AND MAINTAIN VIABLE CYBER OPTIONS AND PLAN TO USE THOSE OPTIONS TO CONTROL CONFLICT ESCALATION AND TO SHAPE THE CONFLICT ENVIRONMENT AT ALL STAGES.
V. BUILD AND MAINTAIN ROBUST INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCES AND PARTNERSHIPS TO DETER SHARED THREATS AND INCREASE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND STABILITY.
7. DoD will pursue the following management objectives to govern its cyber activities and missions :
9. Our Honourable RM, an ex IITan is quick on the button. Already he has started giving some well deserved Hard Talks to the Services. That Cyber warfare will be very important in all future scenarios is well known for a long time. Establishment of a Joint services org of Cyber Command was announced long time back. As Arnab would like to tell, Nation wants to know what has happened to that. All over the world individual services never come to a mutually accepted decision on joint efforts. But Indian Armed Forces take the icing on cake on joint issues. It is always the executive which forces the issue. USA has already started talking about the modification of The Goldwater–Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986.
10. My recommendation to the Honourable RM would be :
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Remarks by Secretary Carter at the Drell Lecture Cemex Auditorium, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California
Presenter: Defense Secretary Ash Carter
April 23, 2015
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ASH CARTER: Thank you, President Hennessey, for that wonderful introduction. And thanks to all of the colleagues – many colleagues and friends here at Stanford for the opportunity to be with you today. It’s a special privilege for me to give the Sidney Drell Lecture, and I need to tell you why.
I began my career – as John Hennessey indicated – in elementary particle physics, and the classic textbook in relativistic quantum field theory, which described the first of what are known as gauge field theories, namely, quantum electrodynamics, was entitled Bjorken and Drell, Relativistic Quantum Fields. I’ve got my copy of Bjorken and Drell right here – it’s all marked up in the margins from those years ago.
For my doctoral thesis in theoretical physics, I worked on quantum chromodynamics, it’s also a gauge theory – field theory of the force by which quarks are held together to make nucleons. And at Oxford University’s department of theoretical physics, the external thesis advisor for my thesis was Sid Drell. I talked to Sid Drell earlier in this morning, and he can’t be here today, but that’s my thesis back in the days when they were bound.
When I visited the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in subsequent years as a post-doc, I remember sitting on the porch of the rambling ranch house right here on the Stanford campus that Sid and Harriet Drell lived in. As post-docs tend to do, I would hang around their house at dinnertime hoping that Harriet would invite me in to dinner, which she usually did. And sometimes their daughter Persis would be there, who is now, of course, the dean of engineering here at Stanford.
2. Carter's Bio is very impressive. Outside of his government service, Secretary Carter was most recently a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a lecturer at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He also was a Senior Executive at the Markle Foundation, helping its Economic Future Initiative advance technology strategies to enable Americans to flourish in a networked global economy. Previously Secretary Carter served as a Senior Partner of Global Technology Partners focused on advising major investment firms in technology, and an advisor on global affairs to Goldman Sachs. At Harvard’s Kennedy School, he was Professor of Science and International Affairs and Chair of the International & Global Affairs faculty. He served on the boards of the MITRE Corporation, Mitretek Systems, and Lincoln Laboratories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and as a member of the Draper Laboratory Corporation. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.
Secretary Carter earned his bachelor’s degrees in physics and in medieval history, summa cum laude, at Yale University, where he was also awarded Phi Beta Kappa; and he received his doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He was a physics instructor at Oxford, a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University and M.I.T., and an experimental research associate at Brookhaven and Fermilab National Laboratories.
3. Within the Dept of Defense he has been DoD’s chief operating officer, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (ATL), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, Secretary Carter also served on the Defense Policy Board, the Defense Science Board, and the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board.
4. Yesterday Ash Carter delivered a widely awaited and anticipated speech in Stanford University. I am reproducing the speech and Q&A below.
5. Mostly the talk is on Cyber. For the first time that his Dept was hacked by Russians came up : Earlier this year, the sensors that guard DoD’s unclassified networks detected Russian hackers accessing one of our networks. They’d discovered an old vulnerability in one of our legacy networks that hadn’t been patched.
6. As Carter was speaking, the Department of Defense released online its new cyber strategy based on three primary missions: to defend the Pentagon's networks; to defend the United States and its interests against cyberattacks of "significant consequences"; and to provide integrated cyber capabilities to support military operations and contingency plans.
6. STRATEGIC GOALS AND KEY IMPLEMENTATION OBJECTIVES of the Cyber Strategy is :
I. BUILD AND MAINTAIN READY FORCES AND CAPABILITIES TO CONDUCT CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS
II. DEFEND THE DOD INFORMATION NETWORK, SECURE DOD DATA, AND MITIGATE RISKS TO DOD MISSIONS
III. BE PREPARED TO DEFEND THE U.S. HOMELAND AND U.S. VITAL INTERESTS FROM DISRUPTIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE CYBERATTACKS OF SIGNIFICANT CONSEQUENCE.
IV. BUILD AND MAINTAIN VIABLE CYBER OPTIONS AND PLAN TO USE THOSE OPTIONS TO CONTROL CONFLICT ESCALATION AND TO SHAPE THE CONFLICT ENVIRONMENT AT ALL STAGES.
V. BUILD AND MAINTAIN ROBUST INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCES AND PARTNERSHIPS TO DETER SHARED THREATS AND INCREASE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND STABILITY.
7. DoD will pursue the following management objectives to govern its cyber activities and missions :
- Establish the Office of the Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of Defense
- Improve cyber budgetary management.
- Develop DoD’s cyber operations and cybersecurity policy framework
- Conduct an end-to-end assessment of DoD’s cyber capabilities
9. Our Honourable RM, an ex IITan is quick on the button. Already he has started giving some well deserved Hard Talks to the Services. That Cyber warfare will be very important in all future scenarios is well known for a long time. Establishment of a Joint services org of Cyber Command was announced long time back. As Arnab would like to tell, Nation wants to know what has happened to that. All over the world individual services never come to a mutually accepted decision on joint efforts. But Indian Armed Forces take the icing on cake on joint issues. It is always the executive which forces the issue. USA has already started talking about the modification of The Goldwater–Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986.
10. My recommendation to the Honourable RM would be :
- Ask for the progress of Cyber Command.
- Give them timelines. Don't leave it to the services or bureaucrats, After lot of studies and meetings they will arrive at status quo.
- Good, bad, ugly at least something is better than having nothing but procrastination. One can always do some mid course correction. At least start doing something.
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Remarks by Secretary Carter at the Drell Lecture Cemex Auditorium, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California
Presenter: Defense Secretary Ash Carter
April 23, 2015
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ASH CARTER: Thank you, President Hennessey, for that wonderful introduction. And thanks to all of the colleagues – many colleagues and friends here at Stanford for the opportunity to be with you today. It’s a special privilege for me to give the Sidney Drell Lecture, and I need to tell you why.
I began my career – as John Hennessey indicated – in elementary particle physics, and the classic textbook in relativistic quantum field theory, which described the first of what are known as gauge field theories, namely, quantum electrodynamics, was entitled Bjorken and Drell, Relativistic Quantum Fields. I’ve got my copy of Bjorken and Drell right here – it’s all marked up in the margins from those years ago.
For my doctoral thesis in theoretical physics, I worked on quantum chromodynamics, it’s also a gauge theory – field theory of the force by which quarks are held together to make nucleons. And at Oxford University’s department of theoretical physics, the external thesis advisor for my thesis was Sid Drell. I talked to Sid Drell earlier in this morning, and he can’t be here today, but that’s my thesis back in the days when they were bound.
When I visited the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in subsequent years as a post-doc, I remember sitting on the porch of the rambling ranch house right here on the Stanford campus that Sid and Harriet Drell lived in. As post-docs tend to do, I would hang around their house at dinnertime hoping that Harriet would invite me in to dinner, which she usually did. And sometimes their daughter Persis would be there, who is now, of course, the dean of engineering here at Stanford.
