Vermont Guard prepares for cyber war

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Vermont Guard prepares for cyber war
By Wilson Ring - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Oct 16, 2007 16:37:20 EDT

NORTHFIELD, Vt. — The Vermont National Guard formally activated a new unit Saturday whose mission will be to train Air Force personnel to fight wars in cyberspace.

The 229th Information Operations Squadron will be based at the National Guard armory on the campus of Norwich University.

“If you don’t know what information operations is, it’s the future,” Maj. Gen. Michael Dubie, the adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard, said at Saturday’s ceremony.

And the Vermont Air National Guard’s role in training military came after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., Dubie said.

“Within about, I would say, two, two-and-a-half years of (being given the mission) the Air Force told us they couldn’t operate without us,” said Dubie.

As an example of the power of cyber warfare, Dubie pointed to a cyber attack on the computer systems of the government of the European nation of Estonia.


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