Military Review English Edition May-June 2016 | Page 113

CYBER FORCE

(Photo by Senior Airman Franklin R. Ramos, U.S. Air Force)

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jerome Duhan, a network administrator with the 97th Communications Squadron, inserts a hard drive into the network
control center retina server 24 January 2014 at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma, in preparation for a command cyber readiness inspection.

U.S. Cyber Force
One War Away
Maj. Matt Graham, U.S. Army

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n Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, Adam Smith
explains how division of labor allows the greatest efficiency: farmers focus on producing food,
blacksmiths focus on crafting goods from metal, and
so on.1 The principle still holds true today; individuals
and organizations develop expertise by focusing on a
single activity. In the U.S. military, the division of labor
between armed services accomplishes this expertise: the
Air Force concentrates on air superiority, allowing the
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Army to focus on land warfare and the Navy to concern
itself with maritime combat. The Marine Corps develops
its expertise in bridging the gap between land and sea.
Although it possesses some very different characteristics from the physical domains, cyberspace has recently
emerged as an independent domain that requires its
own particular military expertise. With nations seeking
advantages in this new domain, competition within cyberspace has assumed many of the traits of warfare, and
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