Achieve and Maintain Cyberspace Superiority US Cyber Command CYBERSPACE SUPERIORITY UNDERPINS MILITARY SUPERIORITY Military superiority in the air land sea and space domains is critical to defending our interests and protecting our values Superiority in the physical domains depends in no small part on superiority in cyberspace We must not cede cyberspace superiority COMPETITION IN CYBERSPACE Adversaries can contest and disrupt our society economy and military because of our reliance on cyberspace They have exploited the velocity and volume of data and events in cyberspace to make the domain more hostile raising the stakes for our nation and allies ADAPTATION AT SCALE Operating in cyberspace has taught us to unify cyberspace operations secure networks and systems and stop attacks before they penetrate our defenses and impair our forces Persistent integrated operations demonstrate our resolve and expand the options available to national leaders and operational commanders We are applying this experience and scaling to the threat SUPERIORITY TH ROUGH PERSISTENCE Cyberspace is a contested domain in which we must increase resilience defend forward and persistently contest malicious cyberspace activities Operating seamlessly globally and continuously lets us maintain the initiative causes uncertainty for adversaries and creates operational advantage for ourselves while denying it to competitors ACHIEVE AND SUSTAIN CAPABILITY OVERMATCH Disruptive technologies increase our vulnerabilities By anticipating and exploiting disruptive innovations faster and more effectively than our adversaries we increase our readiness lethality and advantage in cyberspace CREATE CYBERSPACE AND INFORMATION ADVANTAGES IN ALL DOMAINS Integration of cyberspace capabilities and forces into planning and operations across all domains supported by uni ed intelligence produces advantages for joint operations in con ict and below the threshold of armed conflict OPERATIONALIZE THE BATTLESPACE FOR AGILE MANEUVER Protecting defending and operating in cyberspace must occur at the speed of relevance Agility in policy decision- making investments and operational concepts enables the seamless maneuver of forces in this interconnected battlespace EXPAND DEEPEN AND OPERATIONALIZE PARTNERSHIPS Rapidly identifying and leveraging innovation and talent wherever it resides makes us stronger In turn we bolster our partners by sharing planning exercising and operating together This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu