Secretary General: “If NATO did not exist, it would have to be invented”

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Secretary General: “If NATO did not exist, it would have to be invented”

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Secretary General: “If NATO did not exist, it would have to be invented”

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Nov 19, 2010

Secretary General: “If NATO did not exist, it would have to be invented”

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Huffington Post

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Huffington Post:  [W]hile we were celebrating the benefits of peace, our definition of ‘security’ began to change.

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Nov 19, 2010

Britain’s Vision for Lisbon

By  Nigel Sheinwald, the Hill 

From Nigel Sheinwald, the Hill :  Tomorrow, President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron join other NATO leaders in Lisbon for a Summit meeting that will define the future of the Alliance.

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Nov 18, 2010

NATO Mobilizes for Cyber Warfare

By Pascal Mallet, AFP

From Pascal Mallet, AFP:  In 1989, before the Internet revolution, Suleyman Anil was the lone man in charge of the security of NATO’s IT system, armed with a single computer. Two decades later, with the threat of cyber attacks on the rise, Anil oversees two teams tasked with protecting the networks of the alliance’s political […]

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Nov 15, 2010

NATO Cyber Defense Exercise begins tomorrow

By NATO

From NATO:  Between 16-18 November, NATO will conduct Cyber Coalition 2010, a cyber defence exercise that will test cyber incident response, inter-agency collaboration, and the strategic decision making processes of NATO and its member states. The scenario of the exercise includes multiple simultaneous cyber attacks targeting NATO and NATO member states. Cyber Coalition 2010 is […]

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New Atlanticist

Nov 8, 2010

Stuxnet: First Physical Weapon in Cybered Conflict Age

By Chris Demchak

Stuxnet is the first publicly known crossover cyber-to-concrete weapon and, with its success, the era of cybered conflict has officially arrived.  This malicious software hit Iran’s nascent contested nuclear reactors in situ this year, disrupting their final completion into full operations. In so doing, and unlike other viruses and malware, Stuxnet has shown the path […]

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NATOSource

Nov 4, 2010

Cyber Command Achieves Full Operational Capability

By the U.S. Department of Defense

From the U.S. Department of Defense:  Department of Defense announced today [11/3/10] that U.S. Cyber Command has achieved full operational capability (FOC). Achieving FOC involved U.S. Cyber Command completing a number of critical tasks to ensure it was capable of accomplishing its mission.  U.S. Cyber Command is responsible for directing activities to operate and defend […]

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Nov 4, 2010

EU runs major cyber-war exercise

By the European Union

From the European Union:  Europe’s cyber security experts are testing their responses today in the first ever pan-European cyber-attack simulation exercise.

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NATOSource

Nov 3, 2010

National intelligence director says budget will be moved from Pentagon control

By Ellen Nakashima, the Washington Post

From Ellen Nakashima, the Washington Post:  Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said Tuesday that he has won a "conceptual agreement" to remove the $53 billion national intelligence budget from Pentagon control and place it under his purview by 2013

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New Atlanticist

Oct 28, 2010

Cybered Conflict as a New Frontier

By Chris Demchak

Understanding basic cybered conflict begins first with two critical adages for the cyberspace user at any organizational scale: ‘user beware’ and ‘user prepare’.  First, if you or your organization are digitally connected to others to obtain something critical to the ability to operate, neither of you can sensibly fully trust anything reachable from that connect, […]

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New Atlanticist

Oct 20, 2010

Cybered Conflict vs. Cyber War

By Chris Demchak

The US military named cyberspace a military domain and spawned endless repetitive conferences trying to fit cyberspace into concepts tied to the air, land, sea, and even nuclear domains.  The domain designation is useful for parsing the bureaucratic lines of authority among military services. It also makes for more accustomed objectives if our military seeks […]

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