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Published: Jan 25, 2012
Following is the transcript of President Obama's State of the Union address on Jan. 24, 2012, as released by the White House: THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq.

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Published: Jan 17, 2012
JERUSALEM -- Israel faced an escalating cyberwar on Monday as unknown attackers disrupted access to the symbolically strategic Web sites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, the national airline. A hacker identifying himself as oxOmar, already notorious for posting the details of more than 20,000 Israeli credit cards, sent an overnight warning

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Published: Dec 21, 2011
To the Editor: For those who worry about future wars, the news seems to be good. Joshua S. Goldstein and Steven Pinker (''War Really Is Going Out of Style,'' Sunday Review, Dec. 18) have produced valid and welcome evidence. Some cautionary points need to be made: War has a way of morphing into different forms spurred by the development of new

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Published: Oct 19, 2011
WASHINGTON -- The four-star Air Force general who oversees Pentagon efforts in cyberspace acknowledged Tuesday that the Defense Department had more work to do in clarifying the military's doctrine for waging offensive computer warfare and setting up rules of engagement to guide specific cyberattacks. The officer, Gen. C. Robert Kehler, who is in

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Published: Jul 15, 2011
WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department suffered one of its worst digital attacks in history in March, when a foreign intelligence service hacked into the computer system of a corporate contractor and obtained 24,000 Pentagon files during a single intrusion, senior officials said Thursday. The disclosure came as the Pentagon released a strategy for

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Published: Feb 17, 2011
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan -- Forget the drones, laser-guided bombs and eye-popping satellite imagery. For the average soldier, the most significant change to modern warfare might just boil down to instant chatting. Consider these scenes from northern Afghanistan: A gunner inside an armored vehicle types furiously on a BlackBerry, so engrossed in

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Published: Jan 17, 2011
PARIS -- The Web site Cyberwarzone.com lists 270 books about Internet crime and warfare. In one of the highest-profile examples, ''Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It,'' Richard A. Clarke, the former U.S. counterterrorism chief, and Robert K. Knake of the Council on Foreign Relations, describe a digital ''Day

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Published: Jan 09, 2011
BEIJING If there's a human face on Rising China, it belongs not to some Politburo chief, not to an Internet tycoon, but to a quiet, mild-mannered teenage girl named Hou Yifan. Ms. Hou (whose name is pronounced Ho Ee-fahn) is an astonishing phenomenon: at 16, she is the new women's world chess champion, the youngest person, male or female, ever to

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Published: Dec 07, 2010
NATO's Lisbon summit meeting last month made historic strides to increase the security of all NATO allies. We reinforced our commitment to collective defense. We renewed NATO's strategy and vision. We also revitalized our relationship with Russia. There is another step that would contribute directly to increased security in Europe: ratification of

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Published: Nov 20, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan -- In little more than a year, the Persian-language satellite television channel beamed into Iran by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and a prominent Afghan family has rapidly become one of the most popular stations in the country. A little too popular, it appears. This week, a long-running campaign led by the Iranian government

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