Meet USCybercom: Why the US is fielding a cyber army

The US is in the process of creating a unified cyber command, to fight the wars of the future. The Pentagon has no doubt that the next conventional war will include a cyber element.

There will be "one guy in charge of cyber defence and offense", says Daniel Kuehl, who helped plan the air campaign for the first Gulf War before becoming the professor of information operations at the National Defense University in Washington. Amit Yoran, a former cyber security director at the Department of Homeland Security, and now head of Netwitness Corp, defines cyber war as "the use of information technologies for the purposes of conducting warfare".