[LICraig]

By Lolita C. Baldor - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Jun 22, 2011 7:48:23 EDT

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed executive orders that lay out how far military commanders around the globe can go in using cyberattacks and other computer-based operations against enemies and as part of routine espionage in other countries.

The orders detail when the military must seek presidential approval for a specific cyber assault on an enemy and weave cyber capabilities into U.S. war fighting strategy, defense officials and cyber security experts told The Associated Press.

Signed more than a month ago, the orders cap a two-year Pentagon effort to draft U.S. rules of the road for cyber warfare, and come as the U.S. begins to work with allies on global ground rules.

The guidelines are much like those that govern the use of other weapons of war, from nuclear bombs to missiles to secret surveillance, the officials said.

In a broad new strategy document, the Pentagon lays out some of the cyber capabilities the military may use during peacetime and conflict. They range from .... Read the rest of the story here.




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In your opinion will cyber warfare be the main offensive and defensive tactic in the future? Will ground troops ever be obsolete?

[nancywind]

Until the day comes when a CT can use a computer to knock the enemy's strike fighters out of the sky or run their ships and subs aground, our country's cyber capabilities will prove to be very important weapons, but not the main ones.