“My personal view is, the first shots of the future fight will be either in the cyber domain or — maybe it’s an ‘and’ — and the space domain. And so we’ve got to make sure we have sufficient capability there because that’s critical to our capabilities to fight and win.”
Those were the words of Mark Esper, the new Secretary of Defense, delivered last Wednesday at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air, Space and Cyber Conference.
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