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The New Air Force Mission?

Posted by Cliff on from the flying-too-high? dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Current Administration is just being truthful by pubjames · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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.