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?"

Comments

Re:Legal limitations?

[mcgroarty]

Bush is the first president not to grant citizen rights to non-citizens held in war camps. I think too, he is Hitler and also Not Me from Family Circus. Bushitlernotme. I'll bet his Iraq exit strategy looks like those dotted line maps where Billy runs all over Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria on his way from point A to point B, trampling all over those poor innocent butchers of evil women and filthy Jews. Also he swaggers -- oh, the hubris of that walk... I hate him I hate him I hate him!

Oooh! Pills? Already?

You have no idea

[worm607]

I had the honor of serving with the US air force for 6 years. I was a 3C0x1. Cyber warfare is as much part of the air force as flying planes. The air force has the "brain power" of the military. Airmen run, defend, setup networks on par or even better than their civilian couterparts. Put simply anything involving warfare should be left to the military. Civilians who sit at there computers and email and think they know computers or even war should shut up. You trash the military and government. You say terrorism is wrong. Then you go home kiss you wife and tuck your kids in and go sleep in your nice bed. You have no concept of what it takes to make that happen. Fighting on the ground, dropping bombs, or hacking to destroy the enemy is what it takes. You all want security, you just dont have the stomach to see what it takes to get it.