This article, adapted from our new book Battlefield Cyber (pre-order here), has just appeared in Force Distance Times, a unique magazine and website oriented to the people who make things happen in American industry and technology. The U.S. software meltdown helps explain why China and Russia have been able to deeply penetrate thousands of American computing systems. The problem is deep and we, as a nation, have not even begun a serious discussion about how to fix it. Battlefield Cyber is a start.