Cyberspace Domain: Path to a New Service

摘要

Cyberspace is a contested domain. Characteristics of the domain inspire a variety of actors to conduct operations in and through cyberspace. US and foreign government policy officials are focused on creating strategies and norms to reduce current risks through cyberspace to national interests. The Department of Defense has designated cyberspace a war fighting domain as a mechanism to facilitate organizing cyber forces like land, air, and sea forces. There are services with lead responsibility for the land, air, and sea domains. Does this fact suggest a separate service responsible for cyberspace will evolve. This monograph examines US cyber forces organizational constructs and explores organizational change mechanisms, environmental conditions, and actor motivations that might lead to establishment of a separate Cyber Force.