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Report Advises Creation of New Military Service for Cyber

Report Advises Creation of New Military Service for Cyber
Pictured is Rep. Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's cyber, information technologies and innovation (CITI) panel, during a March 22nd CITI hearing on artificial intelligence.

More than four years after the establishment of a sixth military service--U.S. Space Force--in December 2019, a new report advises the creation of a seventh service--the U.S. Cyber Force, which would initially come under the Department of the Army. "In the U.S. military, an officer who had never fired a rifle would never command an infantry unit, yet officers with no experience behind a keyboard are commanding cyber warfare units," said the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies' United…

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