The Army’s Cyber Command (ARCYBER) continues to ‘march’ forward in
its mission of bringing cyber capabilities to the tactical CDR. Much as I have
predicted, cyberspace operations are following in the footsteps of SIGINT as
the migrate from behind the ‘Green Door’ to the field. The trigger for today’s
posting is a January 31, 2019 article from the Army which you can see at: http://bit.ly/2IbTBRV, and which is also the
photo source.
There are also some parallels to the PSYOP world as reach-back is
a key component of the resource.
The article goes into detail to describe “the Cyberspace Electromagnetic Activities
(CEMA) Support to Corps and Below (CSCB) program created in response to a
directive by the Chief of Staff of the Army to build unit cyber capacity and
help the Army to operationalize cyber.” The essence of the mission is to
develop the organization and reach-back resources needed to support the cyber
mission.
But what is the
cyber mission? Ultimately cyber, like any other battlefield system, must focus
on making the CDR more successful. Clearly ARCYBER is well positioned to throw
electrons around the battlefield, but what about ideas and impacting behavior?
Once again, I’m
more than a little concerned that there does not appear to be any attention
paid to the concept of “Cyber Influence”. CDRs must dominate the information
domain – which is more than cyberspace but impacting the space between ears of
the enemy.
2 comments:
Good points, IMHO cyber is yet another conduit to deliver MISO products. Cyber, EW, etc doesn’t influence
Sam - I believe EW can be very effective as a PSY-Act and as such as very impactful.
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