Air Force Cyber Command: Building the Infrastructure for High-Tech War Crimes

[Joanne98]

by Tom Burghardt / July 21st, 2008

What do you get when you combine U.S. militarism, fantasies of domination and an administration that views the internet as a hot-bed of “evil-doers” and “subversives”? Cyber Command, of course! Only this scheme has the potential of inflicting massive suffering on civilian populations across the planet.

Currently situated at the secretive Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, Air Force Cyber Command, the newest Pentagon command since the 1990s, is dedicated to the notion that the “next war” will be fought in the electromagnetic spectrum, one that envisions computers as “network-centric” weapons.

With a unified organizational structure and a $2 billion budget for the first year of operations, Cyber Command is touted as the next “big thing.” According to a recent piece in Air Force Times, Cyber Command “has established 17 new enlisted and officer Air Force Specialty Codes — creating major changes in the career paths of more than 32,000 airmen.”

Eventually, if Air Force securocrats have their way, it “will grow into one of the service’s largest commands.” With a mission to “deceive, deny, disrupt, degrade, and destroy” an enemy’s information infrastructure, the potential for mischief on the part of American “warfighters” and “public diplomacy” black propaganda specialists shouldn’t be underestimated.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/air-force-cyber-command-building-the-infrastructure-for-high-tech-war-crimes/

[Hydra]

1. The truth stands on its own

Lies require constant tending and buckets of cash.

[flashl]

2. So much to say, so little time. "With a mission to “deceive, deny, disrupt, degrade, and destroy”

an enemy’s information infrastructure".

How many times will the American public buy into the 'enemy' was 'over there' ruse?

Will forums like this, one day, become the target of deception, denial, disruption, and degradation to destroy it?

[ladywnch]

3. in a word, YES. n/t