Airpower History and the Cyber Force of the Future: How Organization for the Cyber Domain Outpaced Strategic Thinking and Forgot the Lessons of the Past

Abstract

The rapid growth in the importance of the cyber domain to US military operations spurred a reaction by the Department of Defense to organize cyber forces before the US Government had fully digested the nature of cyber warfare. This paper uses the emergence of the air domain to understand how new technology changes warfare, and how the US reacts to technological changes through the organization of military forces. The research looked at the government documents and studies related to military organization written during the interwar years through the time right after the National Security Act of 1947 to determine how and why the airplane led to the reorganization of air forces within the military.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1031578

Entities

People

  • Zachary M. Smith

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Congress
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Employment
  • Military Force Levels
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Second World War
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Northern Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Cyber