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Command And Control For Cyberspace Operations - A Call For Research, Adam S. Morgan, Steve W. Stone Oct 2019

Command And Control For Cyberspace Operations - A Call For Research, Adam S. Morgan, Steve W. Stone

Military Cyber Affairs

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) declared cyberspace as an operational domain in 2011. The DoD subsequently formed US Cyber Command and the Cyber Mission Force to conduct operations to achieve national and military objectives in and through cyberspace. Since that time, the DoD has implemented and evolved through multiple command and control (C2) structures for cyberspace operations, derived from traditional military C2 doctrine, to achieve unity of effort across both the global cyberspace domain and with military operations in the physical domains (land, sea, air, and space). The DoD continues to struggle to adapt its C2 methods from …


Prioritizing Strategic Cyberspace Lethality, Andrew J. Schoka Oct 2019

Prioritizing Strategic Cyberspace Lethality, Andrew J. Schoka

Military Cyber Affairs

The primary concern of United States national security policy, as detailed in the 2018 National Defense Strategy, has shifted from asymmetrical counter-insurgency operations to countering inter-state strategic competition by rogue regimes and revisionist powers. This doctrinal shift has prompted an increased emphasis on military lethality, particularly in strategic-level cyberspace operations intended to counter open challenges to the global security environment and United States preeminence. Drawing from the theory of constraints in industrial engineering and Bayesian search theory in operations research, this paper identifies the key organizational constraints that hinder the lethality of the Department of Defense’s strategic-level cyberspace operations units …


Introduction To Command And Control Of Cyberspace Operations, Bobbie Stempfley Oct 2019

Introduction To Command And Control Of Cyberspace Operations, Bobbie Stempfley

Military Cyber Affairs

In this issue we look at the means and doctrine for command and control of cyberspace operations today and in the future.