Air Force Cyberspace Command (AFCYBER) runs a website as you’d expect. But it’s not like the ones run by its sister commands.

AFCYBER’s home page differs dramatically from that of Air Mobility Command (AMC), Air Combat Command (ACC), Air Education & Training Command (AETC), Air Forces in Europe Command (USAFE), Space Command (AFSPC), Materiel Command (AFMC), Reserve Command (AFRC), Special Operations Command (AFSOC), and Pacific Air Forces Command (PACAF).

The difference is that AFCYBER offers commercial advertising and provides links to foreign news sites right on the home page. I kid you not.

Major General William T. Lord, the commander of AFCYBER, graciously provides advertising space to the Air Force Association so you can learn about an upcoming corporate cyber symposium.

Lord also provides links on the home page to both a ZDNET-ASIA news story and a ZDNET-UK news story. (Britain I can understand, but — Asia?!?)

General Lord gives you a direct link to a PBS video on “Cyber War.” If foreign policy is your hobby, General Lord invites you to click on a commercial interview with Richard Clarke. General Lord hopes you’ll visit ArsTechnica.com. There’s also a link to a Macon, Georgia newspaper if you like the Air Force Reserves.

Naturally, Lord’s got a link to the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association. Who doesn’t?

Click on “Archived stories” and you’ll find a slew of links to commercial enterprises. Here you’ll find links to CNN, Wired, Federal Computer Week, and Euractive (a European conglomerate). If you click on the link to the Free Republic news feed, you can choose not to donate. And you can choose to skip the ad if you click on the link to Dark Reading (don’t worry: it’s a news site).

So! What links won’t you find at AFCYBER’s website? Well, you won’t find a link to SecurityCritics.org. And you certainly won’t find a link to usaf.HumorControl.org. Nor will you find a link to CHairforce.com…

The camera fades in to a young female face in closeup. The view pulls back. It’s an Airman standing in a sharp-looking uniform. The view pulls back some more. She’s holding a green box with blinking lights and network cables.

The young woman begins to speak. “When AFCYBER warriors hit the battlefield, they need the best weapons in their arsenal. That’s why we go to war with a Cisco 3800 series router. Cisco gives us the ammunition we need to stop deadly terrorists and hostile nation-states…”