According to the Christian Science Monitor online magazine, the Pentagon futurologists that created the internet, are now attempting to begin a new era of cyberwarfare. They state that the Pentagon has always been open in regards to need of defense against potential cyperattacks, but their actual ability to attack enemies with cyberweapsons has always been a mystery.
The Pentagon’s Defense Advance Research Products Agency has just launched “Plan X”, which is an effort to improve the offensive cyberwarfare capabilities “needed to dominate the cyber battlespace,” according to the announcement for the workshop.
Though the Pentagon is making an effort to move in the right direction in the sense of defending ourselves to a cyber attack, it is still very concerning that many Americans don’t even know what the word “cyberwarfare” means. But, cyberwarfare is something that needs to be learned about and needs to have a defense against it.
The Pentagon’s program is going to be closed to the press, but they are making it very clear that their program is going to help against potential cyberwarfare attack. I think that this extremely important that the government does do something to protect our internet usages and their program shows that preparing for this warfare is essential for any potential conventional war.
Plan X looks at bids from groups that can help it plan for a cyberwarfare and then can expand it’s technology. This means that the window can open into the highly secretive world of offensive cyberwarfare and I feel that this defense movement is both necessary and crucial for protection.
According to Jim Lewis, the director of the Technology and Public Policy programs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, “If we have a robust public discussion of nuclear weapons, then why not a robust discussion for cyberstrategy? Up until now, cyber been kind of an ad hoc. What they’re doing now is saying that this is going to be a normal part of US Military operations.”
I agree that the US military and government should indeed have some sort of defense against cyber warfare, but I don’t think that it should be a “robust public discussion” for the sole reason that word of mouth spreads very quickly. Meaning, if other countries or enemies found out about how we are going about defending against the warfare, then may then be able to find ways around our defenses.
Cyberwarfare could potentially be an extremely aggressive warfare, so US government officials most definitely are doing the right thing by preparing for defenses against it.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2012/1012/Pentagon-s-Plan-X-how-it-could-change-cyberwarfare
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