Comment Re:New military branch needed (Score 1) 131
As someone who had a face to face with Military Intelligence I would concord with your words on MI but I would note you that the question is not capability but crime. Crime is not capability. It is a process which, at least, degradates the very frame of society in every level and form.
If we have a crime gang going wild, we need to track not only their capabilities but also their relations motives and modus vivendi. And note, I am writing "capabilities" in plural. Now how in MI conditions can you give a solution to this problem? Sincerly? Not even the police forces have an answer for it! How the MI will have? The whole problem is to mitigate, as much as possible the threat. If you can take them down, great. If you are taking down a capability and giving them more strength... Hey, pal, you are probably creating a hurricane out of a cup of water.
If crime is the intent, we shall fight crime, not the means. Now I agree that the means, today, are pretty near to military capabilities. Anyway, Internet is DARPA's daughter isn't it? So I do agree that MI has something to do here. But not to rule the game. That's stupid if you just count for the fact that you are dealing with a foe with "capabilities".
And besides, military are very, very approachable by crime gangs of all sorts. You may try to tell me that these are unfortunate exceptions and sad cases. You may even stand high for your brass and state, straightforwardly, that such thing ain't possible on MI. Unfortunately I know of a MI group, in a certain country, that has been using cybergangs and being used by them. What I saw is too far from the usual MI task and looks like a pornographic variant of "Catch 22".
Oh, btw. An US staunch ally but likes to use US resources... Wonder what your cybercommand would do with them.