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| Navy leaders say military branch is not ‘adequately' prepared for a cyberwar |
| 2024-02-02 |
| [FoxNews] 'China is not a pacing threat, it is the threat being chased,' according to the report Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, warned about China's hacking threats Wednesday before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Association members of the U.S. Naval Institute, belief that the military branch is trailing behind China’s advances in cyberspace operations, and if action is not taken, the branch will have "a very bad day" at the start of a cyberwar in 2026, according to reports. In a piece written for the February 2024 issue of Proceedings, a publication for the U.S. Naval Institute, Retired Vice Adm. T.J. White, Retired Rear Adm. Danelle Barrett, U.S. Navy, and Cmdr. Jake Bebber, wrote that the Navy was not ready for the information war as it had not "adequately planned" for a time when the cyber and maritime domains of war intersect. "The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel underscore that operational planners need to prepare for information attacks by state actors as well as non-state organizations and civilians," the authors wrote, heeding a warning that the U.S. is not prepared for any cyberwar sparked, hypothetically, in 2026. The reason, they explain, is that the Navy has not "fully embraced" the benefits of space operations supporting maritime operations, nor has it embraced that it has access advantages to support both cyber and space operations, adding that leaders will need to embrace these things to defeat cognitive warfare campaigns. "The Navy lacks an agreed to strategic, operational, and tactical view of what it believes war in the maritime domain will look like over the next five to ten years, when advanced capabilities brought on by accelerating technologies such as hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, quantum computing, and free space optics complicate an already challenging environment," the authors wrote. "China, on the other hand, has been planning and conducting a global campaign in the information domain since the mid-1990s. "Today, China can employ its growing control over the cyberspace technology ecosystem — from submarine cable systems to satellite constellations — along with its control over software platforms and information supply chains and growing dominance in algorithm-driven consumer and media platforms to change the character of war decidedly in its favor." The writers based their information on the War of 2026 scenario published in December 2023, which suggested could go either badly or very badly for the U.S. Under the "very bad" scenario, the Navy never committed fully to participating in an information "cold war" that had been going on for years, therefore, it was not prepared. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 Navy leaders say military branch is not ‘adequately' prepared for a FIFY |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-02-02 15:07 |
| #5 If all of our computers are Made in China the assumption must be that we are woefully unprepared for a cyber war. Then you add the fact that America's Internet is open to the Chinese. It's enough to make you wonder whose side our leaders are on. |
| Posted by: Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.) 2024-02-02 12:44 |
| #4 That's OK. They are not prepared for drone war either. Filed under You Had One Job |
| Posted by: SteveS 2024-02-02 09:47 |
| #3 Or any other war for that matter, except the last one. They're quite prepared to fight the last war. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-02-02 08:57 |
| #2 The Navy has come out with its long-awaited report on racial bias. Despite critics saying the effort feels watered down, Navy leadership says they intend to create lasting change. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-02 04:38 |
| #1 I can't see a floating server farm as a command ship. The network is the computer |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-02-02 04:34 |