That program is completely misguided. You don&#x27;t need thousands of &quot;cyber soldiers&quot;, just a few good computer scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Because a system built from trusted and provably correct components (hardware and software) is infinitely better than a swiss cheese with dozens of people attempting to keep it from falling apart. And from that point on, you only need to teach soldiers to operate their equipment correctly.<p>The challenges of information technology w.r.t. warfare are fundamentally different from usual war tactics. You can&#x27;t solve them by throwing lots of personel or big guns at them. If midst-fight your equipment or infrastructure fails because of security flaws, it&#x27;s not because there&#x27;s no personel to deal with it (for that it&#x27;s already too late): it&#x27;s because its designers failed at the drawing board.<p>It&#x27;d be better they concentrated on quality instead of quantity and the resignative &quot;anything can be hacked&quot; myth a lot of popular media is putting forward, as if information technology operated according to the same rules the physical battlefield does. These analogies only go so far...<p>(of course the same applies to non-military contexts as well)