Cybersecurity training, beards, and body fat have something in common, according to the Pentagon. They’re not helping the US military fight and win wars.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the department’s chief information officer to “relax the mandatory frequency for cybersecurity training,” in a September 30 memo, one of 11 that Hegseth referenced during the now infamous speech at Quantico on the same day.
“The Department of War is committed to enabling our warfighters to focus on their core mission of fighting and winning our Nation’s wars without distraction,” the memo [PDF] reads, using the unofficial but Trump-approved new name for the Defense Department. “Mandatory Department training will be directly linked to warfighting or otherwise be consolidated, reduced in…more
Source www.theregister.com
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