In an interview with the New York Times, the new director of the National Security Agency, Army Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander, said the job of the Intelligence Community is different today when confronting terrorists rather than a single bad guy as in the Cold War. Alexander explains: “The problem you’re talking about is how do you find one person, among 20-some million in Iraq, who has the ability to move. That’s very difficult, but that’s the war we’re in.”
In the face of Chinese war plans to disrupt U.S. command-and-control networks in the event of a conflict, the Air Force needs to focus less on its “connect everything” efforts and prepare its combat aviators to fight without a constant connection to higher-ups, according to a new report from AFA’s…