A senior civilian in USCYBERCOM asked me “What matters more: the message or the ability to send that message?” I pondered it momentarily, trying to decide on what message was critically important—was it a 911 call? A call for fire at a critical point in battle? These are critically important. However, the message is meaningless if you do not have a way to send it. It suddenly became clear to me where he was going: it is the ability to send a message that is important. The ability to communicate is paramount to just about everything we do, and cyber turns that ability on or off. After more than a year as the Director of the Army Cyber Institute, I’m not so sure anymore. The articles in this edition of the CDR display that even in this one cyber journal, we look to the history of what we know to help describe the future of cyber, yet there are gaps, and it is difficult.
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