Summarized by the Alliance for Fort Gordon
Published September 19, 2025
How do leaders identify the best cyber capability to achieve an objective? Once identified, how do they quickly and effectively bring the chosen capability to bear? In the current environment, the Army relies on limited Liaison Officer (LNO) relationships, which have long lead times, to access the capability. If the capability or terrain requires interagency support, interpersonal relationships and processes must be established on an ad-hoc basis; however, these relationships typically dissipate once the mission is completed. Operations in the cyber domain are complex, with no geographic limitations on friendly or adversary maneuver. A regional power with limited power projection capabilities, such as Iran or North Korea, can operate at scale in cyberspace; this complicates the requirements placed on regional combatant commands and has an outsized potential of hindering unity of effort when facing nation-states.