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01 June 2010

On 27 May, President Barack Obama released his administration's first National Security Strategy (NSS), which outlines how the administration will deal with concerns ranging from counterterrorism to foreign aid

According to US think tank, the Council for Foreign Relations, "Missing from the strategy . . . is any acknowledgement that the United States might actually conduct its own offensive cyber operations, a noticeable omission given that U.S. Cyber Command was officially activated on May 21, 2010," writes Adam Segal, Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies.