Service academies focus on cyber war

“AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. » The U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks that control everything from electrical power grids to the banking system.

“Students at the Army, Navy and Air Force academies are taking more courses and participating in elaborate cyberwarfare exercises as the military educates a generation of future commanders in the theory and practice of computer warfare.”

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(Does defense include constant monitoring, scanning, looking around in the ether, waiting for something to pop up? What is the level of cooperation between, say, bank security and military cyber defense? Some must be like normal recon – go out, take a look around – except cyber scouts can stay a lot longer.)