And is anyone here naive enough to think we're not working to protect our systems while going after their networks, too?
And in the
'nothing new' category:
Our ODA was on a month-long GW exercise in Northern Arizona in the fall of 1972. Once our G's were ready and we were given some DA missions, one of our targets was a microwave telephone relay atop one of the mountain peaks near Flagstaff. We raided the securely fenced target at O'Dark-thirty without encountering any resistance and left our dummy charges on key components of the facility. The security for the site had been alerted to the increased possibility of sabotage, but not by whom or when. Sometime later, a site security guard stumbled upon one of our charges placed on a large propane tank to power the auxilliary power generators, sounded the alarm, and shut down the facility - causing an NCA level panic - until they located all of our charges and had determined they were not a threat. We made Jack Anderson's column in the
Washington Post citing the vulnerability of our electronic communications networks to saboteurs because the destruction of the microwave relay would have cut all such communications between that point and to the W/SW of that point. Because we were in the mountains for a couple of more weeks, we didn't find out about all the foofarah we'd caused - and it was quite considerable - until we were extracted.
As the old saying goes, the more things change...
Richard's $.02
