Why the US Needs a Technological Military
There’s the Navy for the seas, the Army for land, Air Forces for the skies, and the CIA for Intelligence.
But what about the technology that runs our society? Where is its defense?
As computer hackers and identity thieves launder millions, the threat to our nation gets larger. Imagine an enemy country funding thousands of computer hackers to steal American Identities off the net. These could be stored until a time of war, when they could be used to launder and steal millions (or possibly even billions) when the time is right. The US Department of Defense has been really quite lax in protecting our nation from the next generation of possible attacks. And this is just one example.
Previous wars have shown, whenever a superpower is fought against, it’s done using non-conventional military actions. It doesn’t get any more nonconventional than identity theft. Or how about distributed denial of service attacks to the main US corporations online. Imagine the major American Internet companies all being attacked at once. A very easy way to do millions of dollars in damage to the US economy.
But can the US be trusted to create an effective electronic military? One capable of truly defending our technological society?
This will become a major question mark, as time goes on, and our society gets more complex. Sure, it’s easy to defend technology that’s 10 years old, but what about defending technology that’s under a year old? Is it even worth the effort? Or is this one of the biggest problems with such a complex society?
Will our complexity and innovation make us impossible to defend? What do you think? And would you trust the Department of Defense to defend the technological infrastructure that keeps or society functioning? Or would you rather rely on private companies to handle the complexities?
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