Flashback: Cybersecurity Is Framework For Total Government Regulation & Control Of Our Lives
The US military has set up a new "cyberspace" command designed to bolster the country's defenses against threats to computer networks and to wage digital warfare, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates formally established the command -- the country's first -- that would operate initially under US Strategic Command, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told AFP.
The command will begin operating in October and be fully operational in October 2010, Whitman said.
The move reflects a shift in military strategy with "cyber dominance" now part of US war doctrine and amid growing alarm over the perceived threat posed by digital espionage coming from China, Russia and elsewhere.
