The Pentagon Wants To Use Secret Cyber-Warfare And Space Weapons Against The Islamic State

Cyberwar games at the United States Military Academy.
(Photo: Michael Falco for The New York Times)

USA Today: Military weighs expanded use of cyber, space weapons against ISIL

GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. — Military chiefs are prepared to give President-elect Donald Trump the options he wants to intensify the fight against the Islamic State, including the possibility of granting commanders greater leeway to use secret cyber-warfare and space weapons, the top Air Force leader said.

"We’ve heard him loud and clear that he’s going to be looking for options,” Gen. David Goldfein, the Air Force chief of staff, told USA TODAY.

Goldfein said the recommendations may center on permitting field commanders more flexibility to deploy an array of weapons against the militants, who are waging a terrorism campaign beyond their bases in Iraq and Syria.

“If we want to be more agile then the reality is we are going to have to push decision authority down to some lower levels in certain areas,” Goldfein said during a December trip to this air base. “The big question that we’ve got to wrestle with … is the authorities to operate in cyber and space.”

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WNU Editor: The U.S. has been waging a cyber war against the islamic State for a long time .... U.S. Military Has Launched An Aggressive Cyberwar Campaign Against The Islamic State (February 26, 2016). But space weapons?!?!?