Brigadier General Davis, US Strategic Command (Network Warfare)
- Rapidly evolving battlespace
- as long as we have two eyes and opposable thumbs we’ll fight
- econ major in college, never taken a CS course
- I’m a social science guy
- was never good at math until he had to learn how to make a bomb hit its target
- Heads groups that operationalizes network warfare
- has been learning about the cyberspace fight
- tech has always made new inroads into warfare
- modern networking tech is no exception
- air, land, sea, space, now cyberspace
- evolutionary steps in warfare
- not going to talk about servers and high tech
- what can we learn from the past
- navigate the rocks and shoals of change
- looks back to the advent of air power in warfare
- some thought that war could be won by airpower alone
- Curtis LaMay, father of Strategic Air Command
- continuous readiness – 24/7
- should also apply to cyberspace
- Roy Geiger, saw airpower as part of a team effort, WWI Marine
- but airpower could still be decisive
- Geiger was there for for Bikini Atoll tests
- the change was about speed and reaction time in this nuclear age
- Geiger continued to say that it depended on an integrated effort
- in cyberspace timelines are reduced to miliseconds
- starting to learn what it takes to accomplish this
- some was it’s different, some things are the same
- must change and adapt
- “spectrum of conflict”
- peace-something happens-spool up-war-spool down-back to peace
- exploitation of anonymity
- across a broad spectrum of activities
- no one major adversary in cyberspace, could be anyone
- not just the velociraptor nation -state we’re up against
- must be able to scale up operations quickly
- final analysis: “there is no peace in cyberspace”
- must be ready 24/7
- multi-diciplined force of cyberwarriors is needed
- must be ready when a crisis presents itself, which could be anytime
- Marine General – three-block war: humanitarian/infrastructure, peacekeeping, high intensity conflict
- we have the advantage in cyberspace right now but superiority would be better
- no one military service can own this fight
- military must partner with the intel community, law enforcement, allies
- will need new authorities and policies
- we are a nation of laws and those must be followed
- “I’ve got a bunch of lawyers too”
- training & education is key
- must sustain operations to the highest level at all times including peacetime
- on guard at all times
- offensive and defensive tools
- must integrate cyberspace tools with those in other war-fighting domains
- must take account of trans-regional nature of cyberspace
- no geographic boundaries
- no single points of vulnerability
- a digital bullet doesn’t follow a straight line
- multi-point attacks
- our capabilities need to be distributed
