WASHINGTON — When Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine briefed reporters today on the US military operation against Iran, he made a point to say that US Cyber Command and US Space Command were the “first movers … layering non-kinetic effects, disrupting and degrading and blinding Iran’s ability to see, communicate and respond.”
Caine didn’t go into details about what exactly CYBERCOM, in particular, did — even if there’s plenty of informed speculation.
But whatever it was, several former officials and cyber operators told Breaking Defense that they expected the cyber mission to evolve as Operation Epic Fury continues, potentially for the next few weeks, perhaps sliding into more intelligence-gathering mode and saving some key kinetic…
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