New Air Force Manual Describes Shadowy Cyberwar World (for new Cyber Command)

DENVER (AP) — A new Air Force manual for cyberwarfare describes a shadowy, fast-changing world where anonymous enemies can carry out devastating attacks in seconds and where conventional ideas about time and space don't apply.

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Much of the 62-page manual is a dry compendium of definitions, acronyms and explanations of who reports to whom. But it occasionally veers into scenarios that sound more like computer games than flesh-and-blood warfare.

Enemies can cloak their identities and hide their attacks amid the cascade of data flowing across international computer networks, it warns. Relentless attackers are trying to hack into home and office networks in the U.S. "millions of times a day, 24/7."

The manual — officially, "Cyberspace Operations: Air Force Doctrine Document 3-12" — is dated July 15 but wasn't made public until this month. It is unclassified and available on the Internet.

Source: www.nytimes.com...
Manual link: www.e-publishing.af.mil...
USAF Cyber Command info link: www.iwar.org.uk...


Well, nothing like letting our USAF recently form unit get its manuals onto the internet. How nice. I don't think our military has to be that forthcoming-IMO.

Anyway, very intereting reading though. Good to know they have something in place as there is no doubt the next war(s) will be based in computers and other related tech. I just hope we have the upper hand. I have begun to think we don't-or rather, not enough to fight off a major coodinated cyber attack but several of our enemies. I just don't think we could stop it.

I hope I am wrong. The article is a good read as well as the manual. Especially if your into computer security ect.

The Air Force has no business doing CyberWarfare.

That's the NSA's job. The only reason they gave it to the US Air Force is to attempt to justify keeping the Air Force a separate military service.

We won WWII with the Air Wings under the Army. We were doing so well economically after WWII we made the Air Force it's own separate branch. We're bankrupt and can't afford all these extra officers, civilians, and a separate service secretary. The Air Force should be dissolved and the Air Wings put back under the Army.

The Air Force has no business doing CyberWarfare. Exactly why do we need the NSA then???

Anyone??