Citation[]
United States Army War College, Strategic Cyberspace Operations Guide (June 1, 2016) (full-text).
Overview[]
This publication provides a guide for U.S. Army War College students to understand design, planning, and execution of cyberspace operations at combatant commands (CCMDs), joint task forces (JTFs), and joint functional component commands. It combines existing U.S. Government Unclassified and "Releasable to the Public" documents into a single guide.
This strategic guide follows the operational design methodology and the joint operation planning process (JOPP) detailed in Joint Publication 5-0, Joint Operation Planning and applies these principles to the cyberspace domain found in Joint Publication 3-12(R), Cyberspace Operations.
This Guide contains six chapters:
- Chapter 1 provides an overview of cyberspace operations, operational design methodology, and joint planning, and execution.
- Chapter 2 includes a review of operational design doctrine and applies these principles to the cyberspace domain.
- Chapter 3 reviews the joint operation planning process and identifies cyberspace operations planning concerns.
- Chapter 4 describes cyberspace operations during the execution of joint operations.
- Chapter 5 provides an overview of cyberspace operations in the homeland.
- Chapter 6 includes a case study on the Russian–Georgian conflict in 2008 with a focus on cyberspace operations.
- Appendix A provides an overview of cyberspace strategies, guidance, and doctrine.
- Appendix B includes a description of U.S. Government, Department of Defense, Joint, and Service cyberspace organizations.
This document is based on U.S. policy and doctrine and will be updated on a routine basis to reflect changes in guidance.