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Combat brigades will soon head into firefights with cyber specialists
and possibly IT lawyers.
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
BY PATRICK TUCKER
The next great conflict will play out not just on physical terrain but also in the electrical pulses of cyberspace and the electronic spectrum. But while anonymous enemies like ISIS or Russias little green men are free to use the digital space as they like, U.S. Army leaders say legal requirements and a pre-digital structure of rules complicate their response. Thats why, for the last 18 months, the Army has been experimenting with different concepts of operations for the cyber units that will be on the front lines of tomorrows fights.
The Army, which already has 30 teams at full operational capability and 11 more at initial operating capability, is aiming to have 41 fully operational Army teams by years end.
As soon as we create them they are in operational use in both offense and defense, said Brig. Gen. J.P. McGee, the deputy for operations for Army Cyber Command. We have Army soldiers delivering effects against ISIS and ISIL.
Last April, the New York Times reported that military cyber teams are helping Iraqi Security Forces and Kurds fight ISIS by working to to alter [ISIS fighters] messages, with the aim of redirecting militants to areas more vulnerable to attack by American drones or local ground forces.
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2017/02/us-army-cyber-war-quickly-becoming-just-war/135314/
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)that needs serious attention. The game is not just always about the shiny new and vastly overpriced fighter plane.
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)Everything else, in some form or another, is there to support the person who carries that rifle and holds or takes the ground.
Be it aircraft dominating the airspace and destroying ground targets that endanger that infantryman, cyber warfare specialists confusing the enemy and disrupting their operations, to artillery and tanks reducing the enemy to reduce the losses the infantry would take.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Outside of critical infrastructure, the bulk has gone to Cyber Command in the last 2-3 years. Now tell me that Obama is gutting the military to make them weak.
BTW, the military construction budget is approved by Congress on a line by line basis for each project. Translation: the GOP controlled House and Senate are the ones that have capped spending on defense building.