“I found out we have over 20,000 people working in cyberspace,” said Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne at a recent Senior Leadership Orientation Course in Washington. “We are the logisticians of information,” he said, adding, “we pick it up everywhere” and send it through space and back down to the ground station and “into the hands of the commander, just in time.” Speaking to a new group of brigadier general selectees who were attending the training, Wynne emphasized that cyberspace is a “domain the Air Force could now be dominating.”
The U.S. began extensive air and artillery strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria on Dec. 19 in retaliation for the killing of three Americans on Dec. 13 by a gunman affiliated with ISIS, U.S. officials said.
