Authors: Matthew M. Aid
Intel Wars (42 page)
222Â Â Â The following section on Stuxnet is based largely on interviews conducted over the past two years with a number of U.S. government cyber-security experts, as well as two intelligence analysts who specialize in cyber-warfare issues.
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   “the most sophisticated cyberweapon ever deployed.” William J. Broad, John Markoff, and David E. Sanger, “Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay,”
New York Times
, January 15, 2011.
A 2008 U.S. Army map of Afghanistan's political divisions.
The view from a gun position at Firebase Phoenix overlooking the Korengal Valley on July 10, 2007. (Courtesy of Department of the Army.)
Corporal Scott Harvey, a cryptologic linguist with Operational Command Element 2, 2nd Radio Battalion, Task Force Belleau Wood, uses a radio scanner to listen to Taliban radio activity in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, May 2011. (Courtesy of United States Marine Corps.)
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Samuel Kautz, with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, launches a RQ-11B Raven unmanned drone at Combat Outpost Viking, Iraq, June 2, 2009. (Photo by Corporal Robert S. Morgan, courtesy of United States Marine Corps.)
Air Force ordnance personnel load a Hellfire missile on an MQ-9 Reaper unmanned drone in April 2010. (Courtesy of United States Air Force.)
U.S. Air Force personnel with the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron conduct preflight services on an RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned drone at Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, February 12, 2010. (Photo by Master Sergeant Scott T. Sturkol, courtesy of United States Air Force.)
Sergeant Marcel Ruales, with the U.S. Army's 636th Military Intelligence Battalion, and assigned to the Human Intelligence Collection Team, Forward Operating Base Ghazni, Afghanistan, shakes hands with children in the Afghan village of Warghez on September 17, 2009. (Photo by Master Sergeant Sarah R. Webb, courtesy of United States Air Force.)
U.S. Army RC-12X Guardrail SIGINT aircraft flying an operational intelligence collection mission over Afghanistan. (Courtesy of United States Army.)
Former director of national intelligence Dennis Blair. (Courtesy of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.)
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, director of the CIA from 2009 to 2011, and White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton from 1994 to 1997. (Photo by Monica King, courtesy of Department of Defense.)
National Security Agency director Lieutenant General Keith B. Alexander being briefed on SIGINT operations in Afghanistan by Rear Admiral Paul Becker, director of intelligence of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Joint Command, in July 2010. Note that the map on the wall has been censored. (Courtesy of ISAF Media Relations Office.)
