Here are recent headlines about the military in Kansas:Fort Leavenworth(ComputerWorld) DoD report: China makes viruses for cyberwar first-strike: China’s military has developed cyberwarfare first-strike capabilities that include units charged with developing viruses to attack enemy computer networks, warns a US Department of Defense (DoD) report. … China’s work with viruses dates back at least to the late 1990s, when a PLA exercise featured both network attacks and virus-killing software, said Timothy Thomas, of the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth, in a paper written in 2000. In that paper, Thomas also spelled out how the information revolution had given new life to Mao Zedong’s 70-year-old theories of a people’s war. “China clearly has the people to conduct ‘take home battle,’ a reference to battle conducted with laptops at home that allow thousands of citizens to hack foreign computer systems when needed,” Thomas said. He pointed to a 1999 “network battle” fought between Chinese and American hackers after the US bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade as an example. After the back-and-forth of site defacings and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, the PLA’s official newspaper, the Liberation Army Daily, called for training a large number of “network fighters” and using civilian computer hackers to take part in any future information war.(Council on Foreign Relations commentary) A National ID Program for Iraq?: As U.S. lawmakers attempt to set out a series of benchmarks for their Iraqi counterparts to fulfill, some analysts point to a number of policing measures Washington could take to assist the government in Baghdad. One such step is the creation of a national identification program and database to help U.S. and Iraqi forces identify potential insurgents. … Col. Mark A. Olson, director of the U.S. Army/Marines Corps Counterinsurgency Center at Fort Leavenworth, admits that part of the problem is that throughout Iraq, at various security checkpoints, “different services are using different devices and they don’t talk to each other.” … “There’s great utility in it but it’s a huge, huge effort,” says Col. Olson. “If security was there, it’d be a great thing.” There are also cultural obstacles to conducting a census, he says. “There’s a culture among Iraqis] of not trusting the government.” Fort Riley ¢ 1st Infantry Division[(Kiowa County Signal) Military to prosecute accused soldiers: According to Kiowa County Attorney Candace Lattin, not much will be happening until July in the complaints filed against three men for having looted the damaged Dillons store in Greensburg the weekend following the May 4 tornado. The fate of another four now rests with the U.S. Army. … The four GI’s from Fort Riley arrested with Novak are no longer the concern of Kiowa County. “We’ve dismissed charges against them because their prosecution is now being handled through military channels,” Lattin said. “They have a lot more firepower than we do.”