{"id":288750,"date":"2017-01-05T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-military-considers-expanded-use-of-cyber-space-weapons-against-isil\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:30:17","slug":"us-military-considers-expanded-use-of-cyber-space-weapons-against-isil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-military-considers-expanded-use-of-cyber-space-weapons-against-isil\/","title":{"rendered":"US military considers expanded use of cyber, space weapons against ISIL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US military chiefs are prepared to give incoming President Donald Trump the option to\u00a0intensify\u00a0the fight against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group,\u00a0including the\u00a0possibility\u00a0of using\u00a0secret cyber-warfare and space weapons, according to the\u00a0US Air Force chief of staff.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve heard him [Trump] loud and clear that he\u2019s going to be looking for options,\u201d General David Goldfein told <em>USA TODAY <\/em>on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Goldfein said the recommendations may\u00a0focus on allowing\u00a0commanders\u00a0more flexibility to deploy\u00a0an array of weapons against the terrorists, who are waging a terror campaign beyond their bases in\u00a0Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to be more agile then the reality is we are going to have to push decision authority down to some lower levels in certain areas,\u201d Goldfein said during a trip to the Grand Forks Air Force Base in December. \u201cThe big question that we\u2019ve got to wrestle with \u2026 is the authorities to operate in cyber and space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cyber&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/03\/504687\/US-military-cyber-space-ISIL-Daesh\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US military chiefs are prepared to give incoming President Donald Trump the option to\u00a0intensify\u00a0the fight against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group,\u00a0including the\u00a0possibility\u00a0of using\u00a0secret cyber-warfare and space weapons, according to the\u00a0US Air Force chief of staff. &#8220;We\u2019ve heard him [Trump] loud and clear that he\u2019s going to be looking for options,\u201d General David Goldfein told USA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}