Cyber Campaign Plans and Other Fairy Tales
You might not think of military planners as the authors of fairy tales, but unfortunately many of us are. As a planner at U.S. Cyber Command (and assorted other headquarters in warmer climates), I have worked on a variety of planning teams building cyber plans and orders. Unfortunately, most of those planning efforts were divorced from the real-world capabilities of friendly forces, agnostic towards the actual vulnerabilities of enemy forces, and premised on fundamental misunderstandings of the cyber domain. This gap between cyber planning and reality is driven by three foundational problems. A balkanized and parochial command-and-control structure for operational The post Cyber Campaign Plans and Other Fairy Tales appeared first on War on the Rocks.
You might not think of military planners as the authors of fairy tales, but unfortunately many of us are. As a planner at U.S. Cyber Command (and assorted other headquarters in warmer climates), I have worked on a variety of planning teams building cyber plans and orders. Unfortunately, most of those planning efforts were divorced from the real-world capabilities of friendly forces, agnostic towards the actual vulnerabilities of enemy forces, and premised on fundamental misunderstandings of the cyber domain. This gap between cyber planning and reality is driven by three foundational problems. A balkanized and parochial command-and-control structure for operational
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