Re:The Answer.... (Score 1)

The NSA and NRO have always been military organizations headed by a serving officer, usually of the Navy or the Air Force. Most of the actual intelligence collection and analysis is done by uniformed specialists. They might be sailors on ships or in planes (remember the EP-3 incident?), soldiers in tactical vehicles or at strategic sites, or airmen aloft. (Indeed, all services have specialized intelligence-collection aircraft). The US is no different in this than other nations. Given the volume of material you're looking at, the tough day-to-day work of intelligence -- at least the technical, vice human, intelligence -- gathering and processing, is and always will be done by enlisted service members under the command of uniformed officers. That's just the way it is. Any military service that wasn't thinking about cyberwarfare now, would be like a service in 1938 that thought airplanes were a passing fad. So... even if you are right and cyberwarfare "should" be the province of intelligence agencies, it gets delegated back onto uniformed shoulders.