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Pentagon Hackers Are Waging America’s First Cyberwar


Ashton Carter, Joseph Dunford, Pentagon

Defense secretary Ashton Carter, and chairman of the joint chiefs Joseph Dunford, said last week that U.S. Cyber Command was helping to attack ISIS.

Credit: Mark Wilson | Getty

U.S. politicians have long threatened America's enemies with tanks, planes, submarines, and nuclear missiles. Last week defense secretary Ashton Carter leveled a new kind of threat at the Islamic State: hackers.

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