Many U.S. police departments do not have trained cyber forces, including the Washington, D.
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Continued development and deployment of strategic offensive and defensive weapons, particularly naval, ballistic, space and cyber forces.
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Currently, said Gen Shelton US cyber-forces were about 6, 000 strong but would add another 1, 000 people in the next 12 months.
In addition, he said, the cyber-forces could gather intelligence and were developing the ability to carry out hack attacks in support of more traditional military operations.
Mr Linford told the BBC that the attack was being investigated by five different national cyber-police-forces around the world.
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Earlier this month, a committee of MPs warned that the UK was being complacent about the threat to national security from a cyber attack on the armed forces.
According to reports, the plan calls for creating three types of forces under the Cyber Command: protecting computer systems that involve electrical grids and other kinds of infrastructure, offensive operations overseas as well as protection of the defence department's internal systems.
Although there were some specific examples of our latest, networked systems being subjected to cyber attack (notably the interception of video feeds to UAVs by terrorist forces), these wars were more about countering insurgent forces using terrorist and relatively disorganized small and medium sized unit tactics with kinetic weapons vs. any real cyber component.
It's serious enough, he said, that the FBI issued an alert about it to the U.S. Space Command, giving U.S. forces warning that the action on the cyber front could affect them, too.
This includes what is needed for counter-terrorism and cyber-security, as well as what kind of conventional military forces the country wants for the future.
"We will also invest -- invest in cyber, invest in space, invest in unmanned systems, invest in special forces operations, " he said.
And all police forces will be encouraged to follow the lead of the Metropolitan Police and train "cyber specials" with expert knowledge of cybercrime.
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