They have offensive capabilities and we aren't expecting them to give up.
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It will supersede the START treaty, which has expired, as well as another existing treaty, Russia-U.S. treaty on the reduction of strategic offensive capabilities.
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In order for it to compel companies to take a license, to prove its offensive capabilities were robust and not just a bluff, Myhrvold actually had to sue.
While the Navy has used drones before for mine clearing and other defensive tasks, the small boat (similar to that pictured above) is the first experiment to involve true offensive capabilities.
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While I have been one of those people expressing concern about militarization and threats of kinetic response, it is not because I am fundamentally opposed to the United States having offensive cyber capabilities.
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Now that the United States seems to have committed itself to developing offensive cyberwar capabilities to a degree heretofore unseen, I would like to add another question to the list of many that need to be considered as the developers of cyberwar doctrine and strategy go about their work.
The Navy has persuasive responses to all of these arguments, centering primarily on the unique offensive and defensive capabilities of strike groups organized around large-deck carriers.
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To a considerable degree, that is the case, but much of this is relative to defensive technologies rather than new offensive tactics and capabilities that can serve to better accomplish missions and shorten conflicts.
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Former White House cybersecurity advisor, Richard Clarke, has argued that to this point the United States has focused on creating offensive military cyber capabilities while largely ignoring the cybersecurity of civilian networks, including critical infrastructure.
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The Bush Administration is willing to think about moving from strategic arms agreements that limit offensive weapons and ban defensive ones to a new set of mix-and-match totals where offensive and defensive capabilities are somehow reckoned together.
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Keith Alexander as the first commander of the newly-formed U.S. Cyber Command, the United States has committed itself to developing the capabilities necessary to conduct offensive cyberwar operations.
Michael Codner, director of military studies at RUSI, says there is always a limit to capabilities and when soldiers are on the offensive trying to seize territory, you always want more.
Of course the United States is also rapidly developing capabilities to counter-cyber attacks and to go on the offensive itself.
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However, the Nuclear Triad has been integrated with non-nuclear strategic capabilities, which strengthen the credibility of U.S. offensive deterrence and form the New Triad.
Carter said the budget reductions would have a devastating effect on a number of Pentagon programs, but continued investment in offensive and defense cyber operations would continue, along with unmanned systems, space capabilities and electronic warfare.
We believe -- and this is our hope and position -- we believe that the treaty can be viable and can operate only provided there is no qualitative or quantitative (inaudible) in place in the capabilities, something that could, in the final analysis, jeopardize the strategic offensive weapons on the Russian side.
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