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US Air Force releases its cyber warfare manual online | A new United States Air Force (USAF) manual for cyber warfare has been made public, which dwells mostly on protecting military computer networks and makes little
mention of attacking others. The manual ‘Cyberspace Operations: Air Force
Doctrine
Document 3-12’ is dated July 15, but was not made public until this month.
According
to the Daily Express, it is unclassified and available on the Internet. It describes
a fast-changing world where anonymous enemies can carry out devastating attacks
in seconds. “Relentless attackers are trying to hack into home and office networks
in the U.S. millions of times a day, 24/7,” the newspaper quoted the manual, as
saying. “Operating in cyberspace may require abandoning common assumptions
concerning
time and space because attacks can come from anywhere and take only seconds,”
it added. Meanwhile, Noah Shachtman, a contributing editor to Wired magazine and
a fellow at the Brookings Institute think-tank, said that the limited mention
of offensive operations in the manual has surprised him. The manual reveals that
one of the cyber war objectives is “shutting down electrical power to key power
grids of enemy leadership”. “That’s usually not the kind of thing we talk about
doing to others. The offensive stuff is super secret,” Shachtman said.
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