Top US General: ’The Homeland Is No Longer A Sanctuary' [View all]

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There's a brutal reality that military planners are all beginning to face right now: The Internet is a weapon, and anyone with a computer can now fire the first shot.
"Information technology is the stone in the sling," wrote Richard Lourie of the Moscow Times, "the cheap weapon that can bring down a Goliath."

Indeed, the top dog in the U.S. military, Gen. Martin Dempsey — known above all as a very keen and sober strategist — has acknowledged that no longer can war be effectively waged away from American shores.

Breaking Defense reporter Sydney Freedberg posted the quote:

“The homeland is no longer a sanctuary,” Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. “Some strategic seminars we ran about a year ago [showed that] if we’re engaged in a conflict virtually anywhere in the globe there is likely to be some effect in the homeland, whether it’s potentially ballistic missiles or cyber.”



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