Cyberspace will not be mastered through borrowed concepts from other domains. As cyberspace operations continue to mature, military organizations must ensure that doctrine, force generation, and operational concepts evolve alongside operational experience. Drawing on decades of service across intelligence, military operations, and senior cyber leadership, this perspective offers seven insights intended to challenge prevailing assumptions and inform the next phase of military cyber development. It argues that cyberspace should be understood on its own terms rather than through overextended analogies to physical warfare or indiscriminate notions of convergence. The discussion advocates a distinct understanding of cyber maneuver, emphasizing the importance of cyberspace control operations, intelligence–operations integration, cyber logistics, disciplined risk management, grassroots innovation, and sustained operational tempo. Central to the argument is the concept of the cyber maneuverist: a practitioner who integrates intelligence, logistics, operational design, and risk-informed decision-making to achieve meaningful outcomes in and through cyberspace. Future success, it contends, will depend on developing a shared operational language, refining doctrine, and cultivating leaders capable of generating strategic advantage in a domain defined by persistence, complexity, and continual adaptation.
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doi.org/10.55682/cdr/rf1p-gw3a
The Cyber Defense Review
Volume 11, Issue 2