Jon Harper
Better weaving cyber capabilities into American military operations has been a priority for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine. A new team has been set up at the Pentagon to do just that. Caine, the U.S. military’s top officer who was picked for the job by President Donald Trump, has highlighted the important role that digital tools played recently in major operations, like Operation Absolute Resolve and last year’s Operation Midnight Hammer in Venezuela and Iran, respectively.
During a Jan. 3 press briefing about the special operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, Caine noted that as commandos approached Venezuela’s shores in helicopters, the U.S. “began layering different effects” provided by U.S. Cyber Command, U.S. Space Command and other partners to “create a pathway” for them. “The word integration does not explain the sheer complexity of such a mission, an extraction so precise it involved more than 150 aircraft launching across the Western Hemisphere in close coordination, all coming together in time and place to layer effects for a single purpose, to get an interdiction force into downtown Caracas while maintaining the element of tactical surprise. Failure of one component of this well-oiled machine would have endangered the entire mission,” Caine said.
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