Like most members of the defense community, I’ve grown tired of hearing about Chinese hacks against DoD databases. To live out a military campaign (cyber or otherwise) solely on the defensive is every soldier’s nightmare. So I found this to be most welcome news:
Nice to see that the Air Force’s fledgling Cyber Command has found better things to do than police the internet. For years the Air Force has been mostly silent about its strategy for offensive cyber-ops against hackers, state-sponsored or otherwise. As for the enemy, the simplest definition of strategy is the analysis and exploitation of an enemy’s weakness: China has been hacking us for years, so draw your own conclusions as to what they think is our Achilles’ Heel. Of course, if China really wanted to use cyberwarfare to bring the U.S. military to a standstill, all they’d have to do is figure out a way to bug Microsoft Powerpoint.
