Joe Sestak Quotes

I think drones are a good tool to go after high-valued targets.

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit.

The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.

The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.

We have got to bring together the best resources in America to understand that cyber warfare is the new warfare of the asymmetrical enemies that we face in this country.

We should turn cyber warfare into one of our greatest weapons against the terrorists and they have to know it's coming because right now they know nothing about us.

Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all.

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

I don't think, post 9/11, we're going to wait for real obvious things like Country A attacking Country B - because Country A doesn't attack Country B any more.

Needless to say, there is no opportunity to interrogate or learn anything from a suspect who is vaporized by a missile launched by a keystroke executed thousands of miles away.

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a non-conventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you.

More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Sure we have smart bombs that can blow up any target in the world, but we don’t know which ones to blow up.

When we in Israel talk about a surgical military operation, we think of a scalpel. You Americans think of a chisel and a 10 pound hammer.

These [cruise] missiles are accurate, but they are only as useful as their targeting is precise.

It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.