Airpower advocates are used to paraphrasing retired Gen. Chuck Horner, air boss of the first Gulf War, that little can be achieved in modern warfare without airpower. Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne, offering the keynote address at the AFA convention yesterday, offered a new riff on that thought: “Without cyber dominance, all other domains are at risk.” Wynne said he is working on setting up a cyber command, and noted that cyber warfare can be conducted “globally, simultaneously, and on infinite fronts.”
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
