The "
Future Land Warfare Report 2014" from the Australian Army's Directorate of Future Land Warfare Headquarters discusses the issue of boosting the Army's cyber capability. The most interesting point is "Military cyber operations can be as effective as precision-guided munitions against either a nation-state or a non-state actor", that is cyber-weapons can be used against terrorists. It is not quite the "
Australian CyberWarfare Battalion" I proposed, but it is a step in the right direction:
Less sophisticated but highly lethal threats of the
future may seek to undermine the kinetic dominance of Western forces. To what degree is the Army prepared to rebalance its force structure into non-traditional capabilities and units (such as boosting the capability of the intelligence battalion or adding an Army cyber capability) in order to build greater capacity for intelligence-led targeting? Can the Army manage risk and reduce some traditional capabilities while relying on its ability to rapidly regrow these as required? ...
The land, sea and air domains will become further entwined with the cyber, electromagnetic and space domains. These domains will be the subject of constant competition, with land force operations increasingly enabled (or disabled) by access to digital networks. ...
Global telecommunications networks coupled with omnipresent communications technology will continue to empower non-state and semi-state actors. The effect will be disproportionate to their size and stature and allow the formation of supra-national organisations within the cyber domain. ...
Current cyber defence capabilities have not kept pace with technological change and the Army must develop an ability to defend critical networks against cyber attack, while also being prepared to operate in a degraded network environment. ...
Given the increasingly important role of cyber capability in conflict, land forces must constantly evaluate their professional military training to ensure that soldiers understand how to use digital systems and other emerging technologies. Military cyber operations can be as effective as precision-guided munitions against either a nation-state or a non-state actor. Legal and ethical employment of cyber capabilities requires an appreciation that friendly, adversary and civilian forces may rely on thttp://www.army.gov.au/~/media/Files/Our%20future/Publications/FLWR_Web_B5_Final.pdfhe same digital infrastructure. Understanding the second and third order consequences of preventing access to digital domains, particularly for civilians, is critical.
28. The trend towards inter-agency and joint operations will make the land force more integrated at lower levels. Thus the force will become increasingly enmeshed with external enabling capabilities and require much greater use of civilian infrastructure in the conduct of operations. If access to digital systems offers Australian forces a ‘competitive advantage’, interdependence will see the land force become increasingly vulnerable to disabling attacks on partner capabilities (in addition to direct attacks on military systems).
29. In addition to protecting its access to digital domains, the land force will also need to identify back-ups to digital technologies. To achieve this, land forces must retain skills and equipment that will provide redundancy when digital networks fail. Troops will require the ability to fight effectively without access to digital networks for limited periods of time. The Army will need to imbue its soldiers with the mindset to ‘fight for communications’. ...
The land force may be required to develop more dispersed headquarters and decentralised logistics infrastructure in its future operating concepts to reduce exposure to long-range kinetic and cyber attacks. ...
The capacity of a variety of threats to collect, share and analyse data will improve the precision of attacks on our forces. These attacks will be cross-domain in nature, exploiting cyber means and traditional kinetic effects. ...
From: "Future Land Warfare Report 2014", Directorate of Future Land Warfare Headquarters, Modernisation and Strategic Planning Division, Australian Army, April 2014
The "Future Land Warfare Report 2014" from the Australian Army's Directorate of Future Land Warfare Headquarters discusses the issue of boosting the Army's cyber capability. The most interesting point is "Military cyber operations can be as effective as precision-guided munitions against either a nation-state or a non-state actor", that is cyber-weapons can be used against terrorists. It is not quite the "Australian CyberWarfare Battalion" I proposed, but it is a step in the right direction:
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