[Infowarrior] - Welcome to Cyberwar Country, USA

[Richard Forno]

Welcome to Cyberwar Country, USA
By Marty Graham Email 02.11.08 | 12:00 AM

At least 15 locations around the U.S. are competing for the Air Force's new
Cyber Command, only the 10th major command in Air Force history.
Rob Beschizza

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, Louisiana -- When a reporter enters the Air Force
office of William Lord, a smile comes quickly to the two-star general's face
as he darts from behind his immaculate desk to shake hands. Then, as an
afterthought, he steps back and shuts his laptop as though holstering a
sidearm.

Lord, boyish and enthusiastic, is a new kind of Air Force warrior -- the
provisional chief of the service's first new major command since the early
1990s, the Cyber Command. With thousands of posts and enough bandwidth to
choke a horse, the Cyber Command is dedicated to the proposition that the
next war will be fought in the electromagnetic spectrum, and that computers
are military weapons. In a windowless building across the base, Lord's cyber
warriors are already perched 24 hours a day before banks of monitors,
scanning Air Force networks for signs of hostile incursion.

"We have to change the way we think about warriors of the future," Lord
enthuses, raising his jaw while a B-52 traces the sky outside his windows.
"So if they can't run three miles with a pack on their backs but they can
shut down a SCADA system, we need to have a culture where they fit in."


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