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Use of Force in Cyberspace
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-29 · Resources · 1,845 words · PDF available
Introduction There are presently no internationally accepted criteria for determining whether a nation state cyberattack is a use of force equivalent to an armed attack, which could trigger a military...
DOE’s Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Removal Programs
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-29 · Resources · 1,441 words · PDF available
Federally funded research and development (R&D) on carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon removal is supported primarily by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This In Focus summarizes recent au...
Defense Primer: Operations in the Information Environment
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-29 · Resources · 1,615 words · PDF available
Information as a Joint Function In 2017, Joint Publication (JP) 1 Doctrine of the Armed Forces of the United States was updated to establish information as the seventh joint function of the military, ...
Defense Primer: Cyberspace Operations
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-29 · Resources · 1,465 words · PDF available
Overview The Department of Defense (DOD) defines cyberspace as a global domain within the information environment (IE) consisting of the interdependent networks of information technology infrastructur...
Fiji: Background and Issues Facing Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-29 · Resources · 1,539 words · PDF available
Successive U.S. presidential administrations and some Members of Congress have identified U.S. national security interests in the Pacific Islands, including maintaining free and open waterways, suppor...
Defense Primer: What Is Irregular Warfare?
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-29 · Resources · 1,567 words · PDF available
Introduction U.S. military doctrine distinguishes between two types of warfare: traditional warfare and irregular warfare. In Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Publication (JP) 1 Joint Warfighting, co...