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January 27, 2006
US Gov plans to 'fight the net'
BBC News article on a recently revealed document called the Information Operations Roadmap(PDF) through a FOIA request.
The "roadmap" calls for a far-reaching overhaul of the military's ability to conduct information operations and electronic warfare. And, in some detail, it makes recommendations for how the US armed forces should think about this new, virtual warfare.
The article contiunues with a strange tone that seems to be snickering at the very ideas presented by the document. Emphasis mine,
And, in a grand finale, the document recommends that the United States should seek the ability to "provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum".US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum".
Consider that for a moment.
The US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.
Posted by seans at January 27, 2006 06:21 PM
Comments
Don't ever say the US isn't technologically ambitious!
Posted by: toshi at January 28, 2006 12:01 AM