Center of gravity constructs look at the strategic, operational, and tactical elements of an adversary to identify weak points in the over all capability of resistance. Cyber-warfare attacks the computing and communication infrastructure of the adversary through a variety of…
Economic collapse
Is it possible that economic warfare could be waged on the United States or that we could be in the middle of a form of economic warfare? Some would say business is warfare and there is an expansive library of…
Partial Bibliography of cyber-warfare topics
This list is not comprehensive but a selected sampling of work going down the path of cyber-warfare.
Spring 2008 Course “Book Adoptions”
63873, 64058 ITS 130 Platform Technologies (T-Th 08:00 – 09:50pm) Eckert, Jason W. & Schitka, M. John, “MCSE Guide to Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network, Enhanced“ Thomson Course Technology, 2005, ISBN 0619217537 63863 ITS 135 Operating Systems Technologies…
What you want that piled higher and deeper?
What it costs for a PUC faculty subsidized PhD at Purdue University. I keep getting asked how I like my chance and opportunity to get a free PhD at Purdue University. Of course I had to apply just like everybody…
ITS 100 Video “Warriors of the net”
This video is a quick over view and fairly humorous look at the network and how it works. If you have no experience at all this is a good primer. If you know everything this is a pretty neat metaphor…
We are in a time of crisis, but what does that mean?
When people defend the Patriot Act, the warrant-less wiretaps, and the other infringements on American civil liberties, they often point out that we are in a time of crisis and these sorts of things are necessary during a crisis. What…
Dear Britney!
I think I may be the only person who really feels sorry for Britney Spears. I do not find any kind of entertainment in watching the interviews or the VMAs where she performs very badly. When I look at Britney,…
Counter Insurgency (COIN) as different levels of war
It seems like a lot of people have defined counter-insurgency doctrine at different levels of war. I’ve been trying to construct a VENN diagram showing elements of low intensity conflict for a project and came up with some things that…
The F-Word
As a former Marine I take umbrage at to much political correctness…. The f-word is a capital letter, comma, period, exclamation mark, and hyphen. It fills the role of punctuation in the speech of a Marine. It should be used…
Apple personal computer versus Microsoft based personal computer
When we’re talking about the personal computer world we can divide the world into three camps; Wintel; Apple; and Linux. For the scope of this discussion and due to the almost frenzy of Linux advocates they’re out of the discussion.…
Block Cheese and Wires: Are you afraid?
In the news today is a story about a TSA alert brought on by block cheese and wires (CNN.com). After seeing the story it seemed an interesting coincidence that the alert comes just a week after The Secretary of Homeland…
I’m terrified of the terrorism(ist)
I’ve been thinking about the concepts of terrorist, terrorism, insurgent, and what these terms mean to our resulting interest in international relations. The discussion keeps popping up to delineate the terms and codify the meanings. Coming to a common consensus…
2007-2008 hardware and software requirements
The following is specific to my distance learning students who are in networking, operating systems, or security courses. Others may find it helpful. Distance learning students are required to have a working computer that meets the following requirements to take…
Manifest destiny another take on the subject
Much of our thought about how the frontier began and our American version of our own history is written from the perspective of Fredrick Jackson Turner. Writing in the 1880’s and 1890’s his thesis on the frontier described the effect…