-
Virginia Students Are Game Changineers
Computational Thinking (CT) forms the backbone behind cybersecurity, autonomous systems, data sciences, and many of the tech jobs. Understanding CT instills in the learners the manner in which computer scientists and cyber professionals think about the problems at hand. Needless to say, the construction of modern-day digital artifacts is highly complex. The skill set…
-
Book Review: The Decision to Attack: Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision-Making
Aaron Franklin Brantly University of Georgia Press, 2016, 226 pp. Reviewed by Dr. John G. Breen Distinguished Chair for National Intelligence Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and CIA Representative to the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center “The Russian government hacked into the e-mail accounts of top Democratic Party officials in order…
-
Sticks and Stones – Training for Tomorrow’s War Today
Written with COL. Thomas COOK: ‘I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.’ – Albert Einstein Technology is great, when it works the way we want it to. Over the last couple years it seems the ever-mounting stream…
-
Enter the Policy and Legal Void
Soldiers are down range and have suites of tools available to them that they cannot use to their full capability. They are not technically limited, but rather constrained by the authorities and pre-requisite policies established in a pre-digital age. We tell them to go and defeat ISIS, Al al’Qaeda, or pick another future adversary,…
-
The Value of Intelligence and Secrets
Secretary of State Henry Stimson was famously quoted “Gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail” in 1929. Just a couple years later during the 1930-31 London Naval Conference and the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference, Secretary Stimson would come to understand and appreciate the value of national security intelligence and would reverse himself. The value of…
-
The False Promise of Hacking Democracy
http://www.cyberdefensereview.org/2016/11/04/the-false-promise-of-hacking-democracy/ “Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities” It is immensely convenient to claim that a Federal election can be hacked; however, the reality of hacking such an election is far more difficult than one might realize. The level of complexity in the US electoral process is such that to hack the…