Pentagon's shaking things up in the cyber warfare space. The Defense Department just announced they're overhauling how they build their digital army—giving U.S. Cyber Command way more say in who gets recruited and how operators get trained.

Why now? China. That's the short answer. The long answer involves years of playing catch-up in a domain where traditional military advantages don't mean much. You can have the biggest navy in the world, but if your networks are Swiss cheese, you're vulnerable.

What's changing exactly? Control. Previously, cyber force generation was scattered across different branches. Now they're centralizing authority. Cyber Command gets to handpick talent and design training pipelines tailored to actual threats they're seeing in the wild.

For anyone in the crypto and blockchain world, this matters more than you might think. National-level cyber capabilities shape the entire threat landscape—from state-sponsored hacking groups to the infrastructure security standards that trickle down to exchanges and DeFi protocols. When major powers ramp up their cyber game, everyone operating in digital-first industries feels the ripple effects.