6.Intro to CWO Flashcards
National Security Strategy (NSS)
-Highest level of strategic planning
-Prepared by president, his cabinet and support staff–submitted to congress
-Legal foundation for the document is spelled out in the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, which helped streamline the military chain of command.
-More policy rather than strategy
National Defense Strategy (NDS)
-Developed by the DOD and signed by the SecDef
-Set of overarching defense objectives that guide the DOD’s security activities and provide direction for the National Military Strategy
National Defense Strategy (NDS) – Two main goals
- To restore America’s competitive edge by blocking global rivals Russia and China from challenging the U.S. and our allies.
- To keep those rivals from throwing the current international order out of balance.
National Defense Strategy (NDS) – Three lines of effort
- Build a more lethal force
- Strengthen alliances and find new partners
- Reform the Department
National Military Strategy (NMS)
–CJCS, JCS, CCMD, and OSD prepare the NMS and deliver to SecDef
–Briefly outlines the strategic aims of the armed services by supporting the NSS and implementing the NDS
–Chief source of guidance is the NSS.
–Provides focus for military activities by defining a set of interrelated military objectives from which the service chiefs and CCMD identify desired capabilities
National Military Strategy (NMS) – Five mission areas
- Respond to threats
- Deter strategic attack (and proliferation of WMD)
- Deter conventional attack
- Assure allies and partners
- Compete below the level of armed conflict (with a military dimension
National Military Strategy for Cyberspace Operations (NMS-CO)
The Armed Forces’ comprehensive strategic approach for using cyberspace operations to assure US military strategic superiority in the cyber domain.
Joint Publication (JP) 3–12, Cyberspace Operations
Sets forth joint doctrine to govern the activities and performance of the military in joint cyberspace operations, and provide considerations for military interaction with governmental, and non-governmental agencies, multinational forces, and other inter-organizational partners.
Air Force Doctrine Document (AFDD) 3–12
The Air Force’s foundational doctrine publication for AF ops in, through, and from the cyberspace domain.
Air Force Policy Directive (AFPD) 17–2
- Establishes Air Force policy for planning and executing Air Force and joint cyberspace operations
- states the cyberspace operations related responsibilities of MAJCOMs
COCOM
Non-transferable command authority – Authority to perform those functions of command over assigned forces involving organizing and employing commands and forces; assigning tasks; designating objectives; and giving authoritative direction over all aspects of military operations, joint training, and logistics necessary to accomplish the missions assigned to the command.
Logistics
ADCON
The direction or exercise of authority over subordinate or other organizations with respect to administration and support.
Not a warfighting authority
OPCON
The authority to perform the functions of command over subordinate forces involving organizing and employing commands and forces, assigning tasks, designating objectives, and giving authoritative direction necessary to accomplish the mission.
Delegatable
does not include authoritative direction for logistics or matters of administration, discipline, internal organization, or unit training.
TACON
The authority over forces that is limited to the detailed direction and control of movements and maneuvers within the operational area necessary to accomplish missions or tasks.
Small scale
Support (Command Authority)
– Aids, protects, complements, or sustains another force.
– Used when neither OPCON nor TACON is appropriate.
– SecDef specifies support relationships between CCDRs.
General Support
That support which is given to the supported force as a whole rather than to a particular subdivision thereof
Mutual Support
That support which units render each other against an enemy because of their assigned tasks, their position relative to each other and to the enemy, and their inherent capabilities
Direct Support
A mission requiring a force to support another specific force and authorizing it to answer directly to the supported force’s request for assistance
Close Support
That action of the supporting force against targets or objectives that are sufficiently near the supported force as to require detailed integration or coordination of the supporting action with the fire, movement, or other actions of the supported force.
Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN)
– Renamed from the GIG, in 2013, this is the globally interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities.
– Includes all owned and leased communications and computing systems and service
– Supports the DOD, national security, and related IC missions and functions
– Provides capes for all operating locations
Cyber Mission Force (CMF)
– Directed by USCYBERCOM to be their action arm in and through cyberspace.
– Consisting of 133 Cyber Mission Teams, Joint Forces Headquarters-Cyber (JFHQ-C), and a Cyber National Mission Force.
Drove CMF Creation – DODs 3 mission areas
- Secure, Operate, and Defend the DODIN
- Defend the Nation against cyberspace attack
- Provide CCMD support
Three lines of operations, by which the CMF carries out the three mission areas
- DODIN Operations
- Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO)
- Offensive Cyberspace Operations (OCO)
CMF three subordinate commands
- Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF)
- Cyber Protection Force (CPF)
- Cyber Combat Mission Force (CCMF)
CNMF / CNMF-HQ
-Direct and synchronize full spectrum cyberspace operations to, on order, deter, disrupt, and if necessary, defeat adversary cyberspace actors in order to defend the DODIN, US critical infrastructure/key resources, and the nation
-defend the US and its interests against cyberspace attacks of significant consequence
National Mission Teams (NMTs)
– Aligned against a specific cyber threat.
– Tactical units - missions normally include defensive cyberspace operations-response actions (DCO-RA), in order to protect and defend the DODIN or other blue cyberspace, when ordered.
National Support Teams (NSTs)
Provide specialized technical, analytic, and planning support to NMTs.
Cyberspace Protection Force (CPF)
– “Largest slice of CMF pie” 68 CPTs
– Enable a supported commander’s mission capabilities and in supporting infrastructure by conducting survey, secure, protect, and recover missions to prepare local cyberspace defenders to sustain an advanced cyberspace defense posture and to defend the supported commander’s critical assets and Cyberspace Key Terrain (C-KT)
– Conduct hunt missions to determine if a suspected compromise has taken place
Joint Force Headquarters-DoDIN (JFHQ-DODIN)
– Provides unity of command and unity of effort to secure, operate, and defend the DODIN.
– Operates as a C2 headquarters
– Employs an operational-level C2 approach.
– Delegated directive authority of cyberspace operations over all DOD agencies by CDRUSSTRATCOM
Cyber Protection Teams (CPTs)
– Operate the CVA/H weapon system
– Real-time DCO
DODIN CPTs
Conduct their mission on DODIN systems and networks in support of DISA
CCMD CPTs
Assigned to specific MAJCOMs in support of the respective missions – Directed by MAJCOM they are under
National CPTs
– Fall under the Cyber Protection Force, operationally, but they report directly to CNMF-HQ.
– Operate within the AOR of CNMF includes U.S. critical infrastructure/key terrain (CI/KR) and national interests.
Service CPTs
Aligned to a particular military branch – support missions within that service.
Cyberspace Combat Mission Force (CCMF)
– Provide integrated cyberspace capabilities to support military operations and contingency plans.
– Where OCOs are carried out.
– Directed by JFHQ-C
JFHQ-C
– Supports the geographic and functional CCMDs across the globe
– Execute OPCON over the Combat Mission Teams (CMTs) and Combat Support Teams (CSTs)
– led by dual-hatted service cyberspace component commanders
Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER)
-U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
-U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM)
-U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command (FLTCYBER)
-U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM)
-U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM)
Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command (MARFORCYBER)
-U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
Air Forces Cyber (AFCYBER)
-U.S. European Command (USEUCOM)
-U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
-U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM)
Combat Mission Teams (CMTs)
– 27 CMTs within the CMF
– Designated by the USCYBERCOM commander and operate at the tactical level of authority
– Comprised of dedicated interactive operators, analysts, targeteers, analyst reporters, linguists, and leadership.
– Conduct planned operations in support of CCMD contingency plans, crisis action plans, or other CCMD validated requirements for cyberspace effect
Combat Support Teams (CSTs)
– Comprised of capability developers, OCO analysts and planners, and DCO analysts and DCO mitigation planners.
– Develop and employ offensive cyberspace capabilities to achieve, or directly support the achievement of CCMD objectives while being integrated, synchronized and/or de-conflicted with operations in other domains
Defend the Nation Against Cyberspace Attack (CMF Mission Area)
– If directed by the president or the SecDef, the US military may conduct cyberspace operations to counter an imminent or on-going attack against the US homeland or interests in cyberspace
– To blunt attack and prevent damage to key infrastructure or loss of life.
Defend the Nation Against Cyberspace Attack (CMF Mission Area)
– If directed by the president or the SecDef, the US military may conduct cyberspace operations to counter an imminent or on-going attack against the US homeland or interests in cyberspace
– To blunt attack and prevent damage to key infrastructure or loss of life.