U.S. Government. Hackers Are Spying On You: Inside the World of Digital Espionage. This Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar as Easy as Angry Birds. Cyberweapons: Bold steps in a digital darkness? Article Highlights The United States rushed into the nuclear age eager to cement its technical superiority, disregarding warnings of key statesmen and scientists that a decades-long nuclear arms race would ensue.
Before they go too far, policymakers should consider the implications -- both intended and unintended -- of cyberweapons. Though Israel and the United States may have vast resources to support sophisticated and creative cyberweapons programs, it is worth remembering that such advantage could be its disadvantage: Each new cyberattack becomes a template for other nations -- or sub-national actors -- looking for ideas. As nations begin to develop cyberwarfare organizations, they run the risk of creating bureaucratic entities, which will protect offensive cyber capabilities that simultaneously subject their own publics to cyber vulnerabilities. Since the United States has the most to lose in this area, the safe approach is to direct cyber research at purely defensive applications. US Training Syrian Opposition In Cyber Warfare, Online Security. This still image taken from video off a social media website uploaded as December 29, 2011, shows a soldier (R) kicking a man (3rd R) after arresting him and subsequently putting him in the back of an armoured vehicle in Douma.
(photo by REUTERS/via Reuters Tv/Handout) Author: assafir Posted June 16, 2012 Along with the ongoing the arms race in Syria, there is a different kind of “war.” Mutually Assured Cyberdestruction? Photo Washington IT took years after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima for the nation to develop a common national understanding of when and how to use a weapon of such magnitude.
Not until after the Cuban Missile Crisis, 50 years ago this October, did a consensus emerge that the weapon was too terrible ever to employ again, save as a deterrent and a weapon of last resort. Over the past decade, on a far smaller scale, the country’s military and intelligence leadership have gone through a parallel debate about how to use the . Obama Ordered Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran. Hasan Sarbakhshian/Associated Press Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz.
Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and , gave it a name: . Cyber and Drone Attacks May Change Warfare More Than the Machine Gun - Ross Andersen. The new look of drone-enabled war.
Reuters. From state-sponsored cyber attacks to autonomous robotic weapons, twenty-first century war is increasingly disembodied. Losing the narrative. Drones are not a universal panacea to terrorism issues.
Confront and Confuse - By Micah Zenko. Ongoing rampant sexual assault within America’s armed forces is a tragedy.
The 2012 Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Members (WGRA) found that an estimated 26,000 active-duty servicemembers were sexually assaulted last year, and recent allegations of sexual assault by officers assigned to prevent that very crime have lent the situation a sinister irony. The U.S. military is clearly facing, in the words of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen.
Hidden History: America's Secret Drone War in Africa. An MQ-9 Reaper in Iraq in 2008.
Photo: Air Force. Obama's Death Panel - By Bruce Ackerman. It has been a week since a drone attack rubbed out Anwar al-Awlaki, whose copious English-language sermons, YouTube videos, and anti-Western screeds served as a powerful vehicle for radical jihadism on the Internet. But a steady flow of leaks is only now revealing the scandalous way in which Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, was targeted for assassination. The revelations should shock even those who believe that a fair-minded reading of the law and evidence provides a strong basis for killing Awlaki. For it is becoming increasingly clear that the White House conducted nothing resembling a fair-minded process. Why Drones May Bring a Renaissance, Not Erosion, of Privacy - Alexis C. Madrigal.
The US and its UAVs: A Cost-Benefit Analysis. 10 Ways to Fix the Drone War - By Rosa Brooks. The false fear of autonomous weapons. Last month, Human Rights Watch raised eyebrows with a provocatively titled report about autonomous weaponry that can select targets and fire at them without human input.
“Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots,” blasts the headline, and argues that autonomous weapons will increase the danger to civilians in conflict. In this report, HRW urges the international community to “prohibit the development, production, and use of fully autonomous weapons” because these machines “inherently lack human qualities that provide legal and non-legal checks on the killing of civilians.” While such concern is understandable, it is misplaced. For starters, as HRW concede in their report, no country, including the U.S., has decided to either develop or deploy fully autonomous armed robots. Yes, Sometimes Drones Are Actually Effective. In Yemen, drones can work if they're part of a larger strategy, but not if they are the strategy.
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