Beyond Mission Command: Maneuver Warfare for Cyber Command and Control

Abstract

The rapidly expanding and dynamic nature of the cyber domain requires that U.S. Cyber Command adopts maneuver warfare's decentralized command and control doctrine to maximize military cyberspace operations. Since the establishment of U.S. Cyber Command in 2009, cyberspace operations have increasingly gained visibility across the U.S. government and DoD in particular. In that time, a centralized command and control structure has evolved to globally control military cyberspace operations from U.S. Cyber Command, vice delegating cyber forces and authorities to combatant commanders and below. Decentralized command and control will allow U.S. cyber forces to take advantage of tactical innovation in this emerging domain, to better allow for operational objective accomplishment by combatant and joint force commanders, and to succeed during cyberspace operation in an A2AD environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 18, 2015
Accession Number
ADA622589

Entities

People

  • Wilson R. Mcgraw

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Cyber Protection
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cyberspace
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Operations
  • Military Operations
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Special Operations Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Fully Networked C3