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Wow, cyber operations budget is tiny compared to overall military budget. Why is this such a low priority?

• annoyingnoob 5y ago
  A datacenter and a bunch of computers costs less than an airport and a bunch of fighter jets?
• tzs 5y ago
  You can't infer priority from budget size, because different military activities have different equipment requirements. Need the capability to send a few guys in a helicopter to attack an enemy physically? You are looking at hundreds of millions for the helicopter and weapons. Need to have a few guys remotely hack a foreign website? A few computers, a good internet connection, and some comfortable chairs. No matter how high you prioritize those kinds of cyber ops you aren't going to need a budget anywhere what even a modest fleet of aircraft or ships or tanks needs. Sometimes there may be a need to blow up something or physically sabotage something in another country to facilitate some cyber ops goal, but that would be carried out by the people with drones or planes or by special ops, depending on what the relationship is between the US and the country the operation will be in and so how discrete the US needs to be, and the money to support such capabilities would show up on their budget rather than the cyber ops budget.
• R0b0t1 5y ago
  There's a large black budget that is unattributed. And, IIRC, the Vault 7 leaks implicated shell companies in the maintenance of CIA infrastructure.