Hammond's £500m New Cyber Army: As He Reveals Top-Secret Whitehall Bunker For The First Time, Defence Secretary Says Future Wars Will Be Fought With Viruses -- Daily Mail
* Hammond gives interview from MoD's top-secret Pindar nuclear bunker
* Conventional weapons are to be replaced with cyber strike forces, he says
* Attack force being built in conjunction with GCHQ spy chiefs
* But Defence Secretary admits conventional forces face cuts to pay for it
A new ‘cyber strike force’ costing up to £500 million is being secretly built by Britain to wage war with a regiment of computer geeks instead of bombs and bullets.
Fighter planes, warships and regiments face being replaced by futuristic cyber assaults using lethal computer worms and viruses to wipe out enemy targets.
And the Army’s tough fitness tests are to be lowered to allow weedy or overweight ‘computer geniuses’ to join the new front line of ‘keyboard commandoes’.
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My Comment: Future wars will still be fought with bullets and bombs .... but this focus on cyber warfare is not going to be cheap .... and it will be useless against adversaries like the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and any other low-tech military groups or organization.
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".. and it will be useless against adversaries like the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and any other low-tech military groups or organization."
I disagree. Cyber war seems to be in the stage tanks were in WWI and will progress somewhat the same. AQ etc may not use it as a main weapon, but they'll use it where they can.
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