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US Military To Create Separate Unified Cyber Warfare Command (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey quotes a report from SecurityWeek: President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to elevate its cyber warfare operations to a separate command, signaling a new strategic emphasis on electronic and online offensive and defensive operations. "I have directed that United States Cyber Command be elevated to the status of a Unified Combatant Command focused on cyberspace operations," Trump said in a statement Friday. The move would expand the number of the Defense Department's unified combatant commands to 10, putting cyber warfare on an equal footing with the Strategic Command, the Special Operations Command, and regional commands. Until now cyber warfare operations have been run under the umbrella of the National Security Agency, the country's main electronic spying agency, with Admiral Michael Rogers heading both.
As long as you keep insisting of shitty pay and have hard-ass requirements (strict drug screening and physical requirements) then you are going to continue getting people that just aren't that great. On top of that having to take orders from some asshole or face prison time isn't appealing in the least.
The problem here is that they are trying to fight a war of creativity using the most creativity stifling environment.
It's the way these things seem to be heading everywhere due to increased risk aversion and HR getting too much power in large corporations in grubby office political games.
The company I work for is in a field where explosives get used every now and again, so the shot firers have been drug tested (on the demand of the clients) for years. Then the clients insisted anyone driving vehicles should be tested. Then the guys running out cables. Office staff going to the office buildings near the site have been drug tested. The clients HR weenies have even pushed for office staff in the city far away from the site (and in a different company FFS!) to be tested but thankfully their management have not backed them up on the several times it's been pushed back on - so far.
If it was a tighter market for potential employees then such stupid intrusive shit would be less likely to happen. If it's difficult to replace someone then there is less tolerance for stupid wasteful power games that really have nothing to do with job suitablity in nearly every case.
Does anybody think the military is still paying any attention to anything Donald Trump says? Even if they support him, they've probably decided by now that he's just a figurehead that will keep the budget money flowing and maybe give them a chance to try out their toys. I seriously doubt they're listening to anything he says. Maybe when he calls the Pentagon they put Trump on speakerphone and laugh their asses off.
I keep thinking about General Kelly's body language the other day when Trump was doing his freestyle rap about how there are some "very nice" neo-Nazis and the General Pershing and pig's blood canard. He looked like he'd rather be in Afghanistan driving a humvee blindfolded in Kabul than being responsible for trying to make the flabby sack of cooked oatmeal that is our POTUS look like some facsimile of a competent human being.
You are welcome on my lawn.