The Georgia home factor in Donald Trumps fight with U.S. intelligence

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Jim Galloway
Updated January 7, 2017

On the last day of November, only weeks after a tumultuous presidential election, Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning offered a widely ignored observation on a highly current topic.

“Cyberspace can be considered the ultimate high ground — which means that in modern conflict, ceding cyberspace invites defeat,” he said. “We’ve seen Russian forces employ offensive cyber and advanced electronic warfare capabilities with a new degree of sophistication.”

Where the army secretary made his remarks is just as important as what he said.

The occasion was a ground-breaking at Fort Gordon near Augusta. Over the next several years, the U.S. Army will be consolidating its cyber-security operations on acreage just off the Savannah River. Army Cyber Command will join a highly secretive National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation on the base, as well as the U.S. Army Signal School.

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