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U.S. service members, including soldiers from the Army's 101st Airborne Division use computers and prepare to eat inside a tent at at a coalition air base in Qayara, some 50 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. The U.S. military says Iraqi forces have retaken 40 villages from the Islamic State group near Mosul since a massive operation to drive the militants from the city began last week. It says Iraqi troops are consolidating gains made east and south of the city earlier this week, but i

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Analysis & Opinions - War on the Rocks

There is No Cyber ‘Shock and Awe’: Plausible Threats in the Ukrainian Conflict

| Feb. 08, 2022

The specter of cyber war is back. Not only does Russia’s massive military buildup along Ukraine’s borders bring a growing risk of the largest-scale military clash since World War II, but many analysts stress the potential for destabilizing and devastating cyber-attacks in its wake. Jason Healey predicts that if Russia invades, “the opening salvo is likely to be with offensive cyber capabilities.”

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Analysis & Opinions - Lawfare

Evaluating the U.K.'s ‘Active Cyber Defence’ Program

| Feb. 14, 2018

In November 2016, the U.K. government launched its Active Cyber Defence (ACD) program with the intention of tackling “in a relatively automated [and transparent] way, a significant proportion of the cyber attacks that hit the U.K.” True to their word, a little over a year on, last week the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a full and frank account (over 60 pages long) of their progress to date. The report itself is full of technical implementation details. But it’s useful to cut through the specifics to explain exactly what ACD is and highlight its successes—how the program could benefit the United States as well.