Anyone who has been paying attention for the last five years realizes that the new global enemy for the U.S. to "fight" is going to be based in cyber space. There are many reasons for this, including the fact that officials claim that U.S. infrastructure and financial systems are constantly targeted by cyber attacks originating in China, Iran, Russia and other places that traditionally might like to see the U.S. suffer. Of course, we see very little of the fallout from these "attacks" - the power grid seems to function fairly normally, Wall Street seems to move along unscathed. Could it be because our intelligence community and cyber warriors are already doing a great job protecting us from cyber attacks?
The U.S. military industrial complex has spent trillions in American tax revenue since 9/11, tracking, invading, killing and arresting as many terrorists and militants as it could find. But that mission has run its course and Americans no longer have an appetite for sending their soldiers abroad to kill and be killed all over the Middle East. And with the emergence of drones as the U.S. weapon of choice, anti-terrorism operations can now be carried out remotely.
So if we're not going to be spending billions on new weapons systems and resources to keep tens of thousands of active duty troops in theaters of war, where is that money going to go? The answer is cyber security, of course. The military industrial complex has realized that cyber security offers the best of all worlds from the standpoint of a new paradigm in national defense. Cyber security is clean and there are huge profit margins involved. The enemy is often impossible to identify, but the "threat" is always looming. It's the perfect scenario in which to ensure that America doesn't forget that its most important expenditure must always be national security.
The U.S. military industrial complex has spent trillions in American tax revenue since 9/11, tracking, invading, killing and arresting as many terrorists and militants as it could find. But that mission has run its course and Americans no longer have an appetite for sending their soldiers abroad to kill and be killed all over the Middle East. And with the emergence of drones as the U.S. weapon of choice, anti-terrorism operations can now be carried out remotely.
So if we're not going to be spending billions on new weapons systems and resources to keep tens of thousands of active duty troops in theaters of war, where is that money going to go? The answer is cyber security, of course. The military industrial complex has realized that cyber security offers the best of all worlds from the standpoint of a new paradigm in national defense. Cyber security is clean and there are huge profit margins involved. The enemy is often impossible to identify, but the "threat" is always looming. It's the perfect scenario in which to ensure that America doesn't forget that its most important expenditure must always be national security.