Military-digital complex
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Military-digital complex is a term used to describe the militarization of cyber operations by governments and corporations alike, it refers to monetary relationships between computers programmers and the military to combat the threat of cyber terrorism. Cyber operations in the decade leading to 2011 have increased dramatically, such as the recent branch of the US Strategic Command the United States Cyber Command. Cyber operations was defined by the Washington Post as,
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"Offensive and defensive cyber (or digital) warfare, including the fields of computer network attack, computer network exploitation and computer network defense; as well as traditional electronic warfare (e.g. jamming) intended to deny an adversary use of their electronically dependent equipment through "non-kinetic" means -- that is, by fighting with electrons rather than explosives."