House Panel Directs Pentagon To Size Up Economic Warfare Threats

By Jason Sherman / May 3, 2011 at 5:45 PM
A House panel wants the Pentagon to prepare a study on economic warfare threats to the nation, expressing concern about the long-term vulnerability of the military to attacks designed to erode the economic health of the nation and sap investments required for the armed forces to sustain technological superiority. The House Armed Services emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee, in its mark of the Pentagon's fiscal year 2012 authorization bill, directs the Office of Net Assessment -- headed by Andrew Marshall...

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