Web sites in China are being used heavily to target computer networks in the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies, successfully breaching hundreds of unclassified networks, according to several U.S. officials.
The U.S. military has devised its first-ever war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States, envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating several simultaneous strikes around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans.
" In justifying the accelerated deployment of a nationwide anti-missile system, the Bush administration has cited a growing missile threat, particularly from North Korea. But the extent of North Korea's missile program is open to debate."
Researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists cast doubts on the credibility of a Pentagon source used to show that China is developing space weaponry.
The Pentagon's top weapons evaluator reported that setbacks in the Bush administration's effort to develop a national missile defense system are likely to make it difficult to assess the system's effectiveness ahead of its planned deployment in September.
Pentagon war planners have revised plans for potential wars on the Korean peninsula, in the Middle East and elsewhere based on assumptions that conflicts could be fought more quickly and with fewer troops than previously thought.
President Bush has signed a secret directive ordering the government to develop, for the first time, national-level guidance for determining when and how the United States would launch cyber-attacks against enemy computer networks, according to administration officials.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has sent the White House a classified memo warning of the spread of cruise missiles among hostile nations and urging an intensified government-wide effort to defend against them.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has opened the door to the possible use of nuclear-tipped interceptors in a national missile defense system, reviving an idea that U.S. authorities rejected nearly three decades ago as technically problematic and politically unacceptable.
A test five weeks ago of a ship-based system for shooting down ballistic missiles used a target that was much larger than the North Korean or Chinese warheads that the weapon is intended to engage in actual combat, according to a report by a scientific research group.