Cyber as a Service: Organizing the DoD for the Fifth Domain

Cyberspace and cyber capabilities present a new frontier for the US Department of Defense (DoD) and challenge for how the DoD should structure its forces and missions to employ, protect, and control an arguably new fifth or cyber domain. Using current DoD doctrine to create a definition for this new domain, the cyber domain is defined as exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) through technology to create an operational space or cyberspace. Reorganizing cyber as its own service will create unity of effort in a domain the United States must dominate to gain the advantage in an increasingly automated conflict across multiple regions and domains.