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> Just waiting for a random US future president to create an "Internet" branch of the military. Maybe that's already happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un

by vitus 2y ago

> Just waiting for a random US future president to create an "Internet" branch of the military. Maybe that's already happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command is the closest thing that we have today. It's not a formal branch, though, but rather a joint effort across the existing branches.

jowea 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cyber_warfare_forces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cyber_warfare_forces A cursory look and it seems Germany and China were first to having a specific branch, but China dissolved theirs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_and_Information_Domain_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_and_Information_Domain_S... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Strategic_Support_Force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Str...
- greentxt 2y ago
  China's was disbanded like 1 wikipedia edit ago (46 days), if you believe that.
  - caycep 2y ago
    edit made by whatever APT hacking group du jour the PLA has in operation at the moment!
    - jowea 2y ago
      Eh they just say it split back into the usual cyberwarfare sections inside of each usual military branch, not like they actually ceased operations.
lucubratory 2y ago
That's much more oriented to network security, spectrum and hardware, stuff like that. For an American military organisation engaged in internet influence operations you'd want to look at the signature reduction program. Something like 50,000 people strong at this point, insane amounts of resources going into that.