DoD released today the text of a June 11 speech which describes how the military is planning for the first time in US history to establish a homeland defense command, to operate inside US borders for protection against terrorism and weapons of mass destruction: http://jya.com/dsd061198.htm A special unit will handle cyber threats. The CINC-US will be a vast increase over the traditional role of domestic law enforcement by FBI, ATF and other federal, state and local authorities, lately supplemented by the National Guard, FEMA, PCCIP, and the newly formed COIA at Commerce and the President's special office on domestic terrorism. Deputy Secretary of Defense Hamre said the command will work with the newly formed Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) which will be under C4I of DoD. Another press release today covered Hamre's June 22 speech in Vienna where he outlined similar measures for European defense through NATO: http://jyacom/dsd062298.htm Finally, the Wash Post had a report today on DoD's attempt to come up with workable plans for offensive cyberwar -- which is claimed to be the serious first serious competitor for the nuclear threat in fifty years: http://jya.com/cyber-how.htm It says that a component of cyberwar offense is regular prowling of other countries networks and military command systems for the purpose of "pre-planning the battlefield." That this is the way DoD justifies ignoring the limitations of intel agencies' need to get presidential approval for invading the borders of other countries. "Cyberspace is borderless," says the Pentagon. Many covert prowling, surveilling and crashing tools are in operation or poised to take down systems like those of the nuclear command and control systems of Pakistan and India should the need arise. One guy brags that any one of a dozen experts in the US "could take out a country in six hours" by disrupting cyber infrastructure, and that might be looming for the US. Is it true infowar, or is it whistling in the dark psy war: "my megaherz-death bombers are sneakier than yours"? So, it appears that key stroke logging and MS/Intel's vicious "wired for management" are kidstuff cheapskate knockoffs of far worse invasive technology pouring dollars into Wintel labs and fabs.