According to Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein, the Pentagon’s leadership is hard at work coming up with options for President-elect Donald Trump to expand the ISIS war, focusing in particular on the use of “secret cyber-warfare and space weapons.”
The US military has some ability to carry out cyber-attacks to knock out individual “terrorist websites,” though at has not often done so. During the campaign, Trump expressed annoyance that ISIS was being allowed to use “our Internet” in the course of the war, suggesting the US could deny ISIS-held territory Internet access outright.
How that would work, and whether it is in the Pentagon’s purview, is unclear, though at the time Trump suggested Silicon Valley could come up with a way to “knock the hell out of their Internet system in the ISIS territories.”
The possibility of fighting ISIS in space sounds even more intriguing, albeit even less probable. The Pentagon, of course, has a considerable number of spy satellites, but it isn’t clear what these “space weapons” they could start using might even conceivably be.
How about doing something about the material supporters of IS, including those buy the oil they sell.
This couldn’t be because the Pentagon perceives cyber and space warfare as being the next big earner for the MIC and a good way of securing very profitable jobs for all the generals and admirals involved.
The last thing the US govt seems willing to tolerate is these people saying things. The government is more comfortable with ensuring ISIS has nothing to occupy their time except killing people, so they can be portrayed as nothing but a caricature / demon. And, the US government cannot compete in the battlefield of ideas.
December 31, 2016 The Biggest Killer of US Troops in the Middle East Is Not ISIS — It’s Suicide
Washington — Confirming once again that war, to those who are sent to fight them, is absolute hell, newly released Pentagon statistics show that suicide — not combat — is the leading killer of US troops deployed to the Middle East. According to a report in USA Today this week, of the 31 troops who have died as of Dec. 27 in Operation Inherent Resolve, 11 have taken their own lives.
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