[madcows]

With the US under a constant barrage of attacks it makes sense to trash the "space force" and create a legitimate "cyber security force."

This may be our last chance to maintain global power through the use of force at all, given that so many competitors are gaining foothold in every other area.

We need bullet proof IT infrastructure, instant backtracing, and effective retaliatory responses ready to deploy, yesterday!

Why the hell isn't the attacker's computer compromised when they access the data? (rhetorical)

[cduzz]

This sort of crime is only possible because the criminals act from within regions where they're not going to be punished (beyond being asked for the house's vig).

The countries protecting these criminals are behaving like the taliban when they controlled Afghanistan.

Poisoning dissidents, hijacking airplanes, crashing hospitals and pipelines, we'd better be careful because eventually someone's going to get hurt.

[tomp]

Great example of short-term thinking! Your enemies distract you and make you fight the current fight to make you miss the next war.

[madcows]

"Uhh... Houston, we still don't have control of the ship's navigation, will someone send those Russians the damn BTC so we can continue to fight this space war!"

... Right.

[dicomdan]

What does it have to do with space force? These are two separate issues.

[madcows]

Conservation of energy. I'd love to suggest that we just do everything all of the time, but that's unsustainable and fodder for another dissenting comment, so instead I suggest reallocation instead of creation.

[nradov]

Merging the Space Force back into the Air Force wouldn't conserve any energy. It's still the same people doing the same things with the same equipment.

[willcipriano]

Why is the space force the first thing off the table and not say the endless wars in the middle east?

[echelon]

We need both a space force and a "cyber security" force.

We have to protect our satellites, see what other nations are up to (perhaps even intercepting their sat comms), and make sure our hypersonic game is on point.

It's worth noting that "cyber warfare" is what the NSA already does.