Te White House cybersecurity coordi- nator was in charge of shaping national cybersecurity policy and the political responses to national cybersecurity inci- dents. Instead, Bolton assigned the task to two National Security Council senior directors, at a time when defense and intel- ligence officials were (and are) anticipating more cyberattacks, not fewer, given cyber threats from major powers such as Russia’s NotPetya ransomware and North Korea’s WannaCry ransomware.
In addition, Singer said, “Tere’s the larger challenge of a geopolitical economic and technologic race with China, where China is behind but moving at a much faster pace ahead. And there have been a series of decisions that really attack some of the core advantages that allowed us to be ahead—specifically, spending on research and development and attracting the world’s top talent to America.
“You look at the history of leading American technology companies, and the over- whelming majority of them were started by either an immigrant or son of an immi- grant.” Yet current national immigration policy has moved to create the opposite, with dangerous potential consequences, he said, evoking the United States’ depor- tation in 1955 of Qian Xuesan, the first director of Cal Tech’s famed Jet Propul- sion Lab who would go on to found the Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile and space rocketry program.
Tose days of McCarthyism and the Red Scare were over a half-century ago, but the current national policy’s singling out of certain Muslim countries for restric- tions on immigration to the U.S. are painfully familiar, Singer said. “You can pretty much [draw] a direct line between actions driven out of bias that harmed national security. ... We know what works, we know what doesn’t, from history, and we’re ignoring these lessons today.
“It’s a deep worry. I do a fair amount of travel, and it’s something that our allies are deeply, deeply worried about, as well.”
TECH COMPETITION On the plus side, Singer sees DOD’s outreach to Silicon Valley as a “saleable” step in the right direction as the Army modernizes. “I don’t think it’s the end-all, be-all solution, and the challenge is multi- faceted,” he said.
“One is, at the end of the day, the Penta- gon’s spend in Silicon Valley is not going to be enough to alter the behavior of the large tech companies. It is enough to open up opportunities for some of the smaller companies and startups and the like, but it’s not going to change what, as we’ve already seen, the Googles or the Apples are going to do.”
The second major challenge is that,
whereas the Soviet Union competed tech- nologically with the United States, now
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“LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media,” which Singer co-authored with Emerson T. Brooking, is an in-depth explora- tion of the battlefield of the internet. (Image courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
China is also competing economically for American investment, which colors U.S. companies’ willingness to do busi- ness with DOD. “Te China market is crucial to so many companies’ future prospects. And so it leads them to look at that relationship with the Pentagon—that full-fledged jump into, you know, a more
Exercises often are designed to validate existing concepts or planned programs of record to demonstrate “that this was a good investment, as opposed to really, really kicking at the tires.”
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