Military leaders seek lessons-learned from cyber operations in information warfare operations against ISIS
WASHINGTON – Information warfare leaders at the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) want to know what they can learn from U.S. Cyber Command’s online cyber warfare offensive against the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). C4ISRnet reports. Continue reading original article
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
1 July 2020 -- Defense officials have been applying lessons learned in combat to hotly contested information warfare. To date, this process has involved a variety of reorganization efforts across the services, but the approach is changing.
One starting point includes Joint Task Force-Ares — U.S. Cyber Command’s online offensive against the Islamic State group — and its Operation Glowing Symphony, the command’s largest and most complex operation.
That operation targeted ISIS media and online operations, taking out infrastructure and preventing ISIS members from communicating and posting propaganda.
Related: Electronic warfare on the ground
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