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see also:
Schmitt analysis
on cyber as a use of force
US gov resources
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law & policy page
infowar page
perception page
data mining, on the
AWC Gateway to Intelligence
national security strategy
to secure cyberspace, on the
AWC Gateway to Doctrine
CyberCrime.gov
A wild, weird clime that lieth sublime
Out of Space, Out of Time
— Edgar Allen Poe

Information is no longer a staff function but an operational one. It is deadly as well as useful.
— Executive Summary, Air Force 2025 report

Reality has always been too small for human imagination.
— Brenda Laurel

“…with electricity and automation, the technology of fragmented processes suddenly fused with the human dialogue and the need for over-all considerations of human unity. Men are suddenly nomadic gatherers of knowledge, nomadic as never before, informed as never before, free from fragmentary specialization as never before – but also involved in the total social process as never before, since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.”
— Marshall McLuhan, in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…
— William Gibson, in Neuromancer, 1984

Unrestricted Warfare, by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, Beijing: PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House, February 1999 [bold emphasis is ours]

“In terms of beyond-limits warfare, there is no longer any distinction between what is or is not the battlefield. Spaces in nature including the ground, the seas, the air, and outer space are battlefields, but social spaces such as the military, politics, economics, culture, and the psyche are also battlefields. And the technological space linking these two great spaces is even more so the battlefield over which all antagonists spare no effort in contending. [3] Warfare can be military, or it can be quasi-military, or it can be non-military. It can use violence, or it can be nonviolent. It can be a confrontation between professional soldiers, or one between newly emerging forces consisting primarily of ordinary people or experts. These characteristics of beyond-limits war are the watershed between it and traditional warfare, as well as the starting line for new types of warfare.”
StrategyBack to Top
Information Strategy: the Missing Link, by Palaoro, in Joint Force Quarterly, 4th Qtr 2010
InteragencyBack to Top

MOA between DHS and DoD, Regarding Cybersecurity, 13 Oct 2010
U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM)Back to Top

U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) – [from USSTRATCOM Fact Sheet]
Mission :
USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes, and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full-spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.
Forces :
USCYBERCOM is a sub-unified command subordinate to USSTRATCOM. Service Elements include:
USA \96 Army Forces Cyber Command (ARFORCYBER)
USAF \96 24th USAF
USN \96 Fleet Cyber Command (FLTCYBERCOM), U.S. Tenth Fleet
USMC \96 Marine Forces Cyber Command (MARFORCYBER)
U.S. Cyber Command