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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. Obligatory... by I_M_Noman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    All your cyberspace are belong to us!

  2. Re:Legal limitations? by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't think Bush has done nearly the job stamping out "legal limitations" that you think he has....

    If you want an example of a stamping out of legal limitations, look no further than Guantanamo Bay, where rights inherant since the Magna Carta are trampled on daily. Might do a good job to google for "CIA prisons" as well.

    I don't know what to you counts as a government overstepping legal limitations, but if suspending "habius corpus" doesen't count, then quite frankly I don't know what does.

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