Stanton: Army can launch offensive cyber operations without negative effects

By Nickolai Sukharev / July 5, 2024 at 10:00 AM
The Army can conduct offensive cyber operations against adversaries professionally and without triggering negative consequences that would intentionally affect other countries, according to a top cyber operations commander. “We demonstrated our professionalism and then that got the necessary buy-in from across the entire interagency to then allow us to conduct more different, more effective cyber operations,” Maj. Gen. Paul Stanton said July 2 at an event hosted by the Association of the United States Army in Arlington, VA. “It honestly...

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