Despite the creation of a U.S. Cyber Command under NSA head General Keith Alexander in 2009, the U.S. government and military has remained guarded about its role as an attacker rather than a mere defender in digital military operations. Even afterconfirmation that the ultra-sophisticated Stuxnet malware was created by U.S. and Israeli agents andstrong evidence that the Flame spyware was developed by the same coders, no government source has officially acknowledged targeting foreign countries’ militaries or civilians with malicious code.