Accession Number:

AD1105247

Title:

Defending Forward: Seizing the Initiative in Cyberspace Below the Level of Armed Conflict

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report,13 Aug 2018,14 Jun 2019

Corporate Author:

US Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth United States

Personal Author(s):

• Yoon,Daniel S.

Report Date:

2019-06-14

Pagination or Media Count:

120.0

Abstract:

The United States recognizes the strategic and economic importance of the cyberspace domain for advancing and securing its national interests. Despite efforts to deter malicious cyberspace activities, the United States continues to face and suffer countless cyberspace attacks from state and nonstate actors at a threshold below the level of armed conflict often referred to as the gray zone. This research study examines how the United States can build a whole of society approach to leverage interagency, the private sector, local government, academia, and coalition partners cyberspace capabilities and authorities. The purpose of the whole of society approach is to proactively execute joint operations in order to compete and contest against adversaries in cyberspace across the conflict continuum. A qualitative analysis of existing joint interagency models lends to providing a solution for a cohesive unified action for countering malicious cyberspace activities below the level of armed conflict.

Descriptors:

• cyberspace
• national security
• cyberattacks
• governments
• united states
• political systems

Subject Categories:

• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
• Government and Political Science

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE