Happening now: Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on @USSOCOM & @US_CYBERCOM
"We recognize that our counterterrorism operations, while still critical to protecting Americans fro the likes of #ISIS & #alQaida, must become even more sustainable & focus on the most pressing threats" per @DeptofDefense Acting Asst Sec for Special Ops Chris Maier
"SOF continue to deter & disrupt persistent threats by terrorist & extremist organizations" per @USSOCOM Commander, Gen Richard Clarke
"20 years of this fight has honed out capability & most importantly our resolve" he says, calling SOF approaches "effective and sustainable"
"20 years of this fight has honed out capability & most importantly our resolve" he says, calling SOF approaches "effective and sustainable"
"Additionally, we are well-postured within the joint force to compete against malign state influence" per @USSOCOM's Gen Clarke
"Below the level of armed conflict, SOF teams support a wide-range of US policy objectives & generate options to counter #China, #Russia & other competitors" per @USSOCOM's Gen Clarke
US has nearly 5,000 special forces in almost 60 countries, per @USSOCOM's Gen Clarke
"Adversaries are demonstrating a changed risk calculus" per @US_CYBERCOM @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA Gen Paul Nakasone
"They are undertaking malign activities in cyberspace of greater scope, scale & sophistication... US Cyber Command must continue to adapt"
"They are undertaking malign activities in cyberspace of greater scope, scale & sophistication... US Cyber Command must continue to adapt"
#SolarWinds, MS Exchange hack-"This is a scope, a scale, a level of sophistication that we hadn't seen previously" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA
"It is the clarion call for us to look at this differently. How do we ensure we have as a nation both the resiliency & the ability to act"
"It is the clarion call for us to look at this differently. How do we ensure we have as a nation both the resiliency & the ability to act"
NEW: "In the case of #Somalia there were as you know a lot of changes made in the last few months, including moving forces...From my perspective there are significant downsides to the pullout to cost & effectiveness" per @DeptofDefense Acting Asst Sec for Special Ops Chris Maier
Maier adds the impact of the troop pullout from #Somalia is part of the posture review currently underway by @DeptofDefense
NEW: #Afghanistan-"While progress has been made...the capabilities that the US provides for the Afghans to be able to combat the #Taliban & other threats that reside in Afghanistan are critical to their success" per @USSOCOM's Gen Clarke, who says he was there recently
NEW: "It's clear that the #Taliban have not upheld what they said they would do & reduce the violence" per @USSOCOM Commander Gen Clarke
"It is clear they took a deliberate approach & increased their violence since the peace accords were signed" he says
"It is clear they took a deliberate approach & increased their violence since the peace accords were signed" he says
"Counterterrorism can also equate to great power competition" per @USSOCOM's Gen Clarke "in some place, like the #Philippines, where our access & placement in helping the Filipinos fight #ISIS allows us also to be involved in great power competition"
"Part of understanding our adversaries...is being able to see our adversaries" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA
"If we have a problem where we only see our adversaries when they operate outside of our country & we don't see them when they operate inside our country it's very difficult for us to, as I say, connect those dots" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA
"That's something that the administration & others are addressing right now" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA
#Election2020- "@US_CYBERCOM conducted more than two dozen operations to get ahead of foreign threats before they interfered with or influenced our elections in 2020" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA's prepared testimony
.@CYBERCOM_DIRNSA tells lawmakers that @US_CYBERCOM "did 11 hunt forward operations in 9 different countries for the security of the 2020 election"
#Election2020 #ElectionSecurity
#Election2020 #ElectionSecurity
"In terms of what our adversaries are doing today, our most effective response is being able too respond to what they're doing" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA
"We have a number of different ways upon which we respond" inclu. diplomatic or sanctions, he says
"We have a number of different ways upon which we respond" inclu. diplomatic or sanctions, he says
"This is not going be episodic" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA when asked about foreign cyber/influence operations "This is something US Cyber Command & the other combatant commands need to continue to work at"
"This is not just the department of defense...this is a whole of gvt effort" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA
"We have to operate together bcs the partnership is where the power is"
"We have to operate together bcs the partnership is where the power is"
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