I was looking at a recent employment ad on the Raytheon site for 250 "cyberwarriors" (The ad was referred to by the guys at Wired.com, so I decided to check it out)
This ad -- one which sited Obama's recent pronouncement that "cybersecurity is one of our country's most urgent national security priorities" -- made me recall the story of Ender's Game: a fiction in which a young savant fights and wins a war for human-kind vs. an Alien enemy all while thinking he is merely playing and winning a series of battle simulations? 
It would seem to me all too easy for Obama's presumptive "cyberwarriors" with Raytheon and elsewhere to become unwitting, adult versions of "Ender" character themselves -- to, in their case, be tasked to attack the computer systems extant in say China, all while thinking they were merely engaging in attack simulations.
As such, I speculate that perhaps new "cyberwarriors" with Raytheon and elsewhere might inadvertently find themselves playing what might humorously be called "Obama's Game" by some Beltway insiders.
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