An interesting turnabout from the timeline and details of the Uvalde child massacre is how a generic armed defense argument is being proven bogus yet again. First, a plethora of armed police were on the scene and didn’t respond to an active shooter. We can easily assume from this that future incidents would continue the … Continue reading Uvalde Child Massacre Destroys Theory of Armed Defense
I find an “Unsettled Question of Offense vs Defense in Cyberwarfare” article quite misleading. For example it frames the problem state as this: …there is the belief that cyber weapons are different in that they favor the offense. Cited for advancing this argument are the plethora of computer vulnerabilities, the low financial cost of hacking, … Continue reading Quiet Professionalism of Defense Can Mean Cyber Offense Gets All the Airtime
To be candid, I’ve always found the NSA’s “defend forward” pitch intriguing from a historical perspective. The Navy subsequently developed a “transoceanic” strategic concept, orienting the Service away from contesting the oceans and toward projecting power across them to distant land masses. The American military strategy to bomb distant land masses with napalm for nine … Continue reading Will “Defend Forward” Survive a Shift in NSA Leadership?
It’s being called an end of an era. The era of the telegram came to an end in Germany with a final flourish of thousands of the once-popular message service, the country’s main postal service, Deutsche Post, said Wednesday. Deutsche Post said that 3,228 telegrams were dispatched on the final day of service on New … Continue reading Germany Shuts Down Telegram… Forever