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The constraint in federal cyber defense has always been scale: the attack surface spans private networks that no government mandate can fully observe, let alone protect.
Donald Trump is moving to close that gap by enlisting corporate America directly, in a push that echoes the Revolutionary War's privateering doctrine. The historical parallel carries weight.
During the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress commissioned private ship captains to attack British vessels on the government's behalf.
That approach let a resource-constrained government extend its military reach without building institutional capacity it could not afford.
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