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Analyst criticizes Obama administration's cyber deterrence report

By Christopher J Castelli / December 17, 2015

The Obama administration's report to Congress on cyber deterrence policy comes across as a “laundry list, not a strategy document,” according to Jim Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The 19-page report, obtained by Inside Cybersecurity, was submitted to Capitol Hill in recent days – more than a year after the statutory deadline – by the Defense Department, after the White House ultimately delegated the authority for the report to DOD on Dec. 2. It acknowledges...


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