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The New Air Force Mission?
mvnicosia asks: "The US Air Force has released its new mission statement, which reads 'The mission of the United States Air Force is to deliver sovereign options for the defense of the United States of America and its global interests -- to fly and fight in Air, Space, and Cyberspace.' With the recent rows over US Internet governance, what do you think is the impact of a US government overtly practicing cyberspace warfare? And what are the US's legal limitations?"
I think that depends on what they will be doing, doesn't it? Will they be simulating cyberattacks or actually rummage around on the internet to "test things" like they did in Japan?
"Sarcasm is for *winners*, Alan." - Charlie Harper (Two and a Half Men)
A place without barriers, the alternative for a democratic globalization, its becoming a battlefield. All because the desires of of power and domination of a nation. "From the halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli..."
If anything the Bush people are just too blunt.
Or just too stupid.
The fact of the matter is that the USA did not become the world's only superpower by force -- quite the opposite, it got their by being a benevolent power that other countries trusted. What Bush and his team don't seem to realise (at least in the first term, they've been better in the second) is that international laws and treaties are actually beneficial to the USA. The USA wouldn't maintain its standing very long without them, especially these days when so much of its power is based on financial systems and intellectual property.
Uh. You know, the USSR are the ones we didn't fight. And we should have.