Stanley McChrystal - Answers General in Afghanistan; represented emergence of new type of
warrior (special operator)
UAV - Answers Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
SOCOM - Answers Special Operations Command
Operation Odyssey Dawn - Answers operation to take out Moamar Gadaffi in Libya 2011
Operation El Dorado Canyon - Answers American airstrikes against Muammar al-Qaddafi's Libya
Arab Spring - Answers A revolutionary wave of protests and demonstrations overtaking
dictators in the Middle East (2011)
ISIS - Answers Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; emerged from the remnants of Al Qaeda
Al Shabab - Answers a clan based insurgent and terrorist group which has taken control on
southern Somalia
MQ-1 - Answers predator; UAV; America's weapon of choice since 2001
Overseas Contingency Operations - Answers Obama renamed Global War on Terror this in 2009
Strategic Command - Answers one of six commands in the DoD; responsible for cyber warfare
C4SIR - Answers command, control, computers, communications, security, intelligence, and
recon; areas that cyber warfare encompasses
JP-312 - Answers joint publication that explains processes for cyber command to deal with
potential contigencies
Hainan Island Incident - Answers April 1, 2001. Mid-air collision between a P-3A Navy spyplane
and Chinese Jet.
Pilot released April 10, 2001.
Changed the way we handle COMSEC.
hacktivists - Answers A protester seeking to make a political point by leveraging technology
tools, often through system infiltration, defacement, or damage.; Communist party encouraged
non-governmental computer smart citizens to attack American websites
Conficker worm - Answers released in Nov. 2008; infected more than 12 million computers
worldwide creating a botnet army of computers awaiting commands; gave rise to Cyber
command