摘要：I n 1924 US Army leaders faced the difficult decision of determining how they should distribute their budget within an increasingly fiscally constrained environment. Giving priority to any single mission area could mean disaster for the others. One particular program that attracted much interest—the Lassiter Plan, designed to expand the Air Service at an estimated cost of $90 million per year-would consume more than one-third of the Army’s budget.1 Today the US Air Force (as well as the Department of Defense [DOD], for that matter) faces a similar challenge. In the shadow of a poor economic climate, and in an effort to reconstitute our traditional capabilities, the DOD is undergoing sweeping cuts in both funding and manpower. Many programs face deep curtailment or, in some cases, extinction. As was the case in the 1920s, giving priority to any one mission area could have dire conse- ^ quences for the others. However, just as airpower soon f emerged as a revolution in military affairs during the early twentieth century, so may cyber warfare become the next revolution for the new millennium. .
