NDIA Policy Points: U.S. Can’t Wait Any Longer for a Cyber Force
4/22/2022
By Jacob Winn
In 1947, the United States acknowledged that air power had fundamentally changed warfare by creating the Department of the Air Force.
Lawmakers saw the need for a service that could independently train, equip and prepare for the full spectrum of air operations.
They foresaw that controlling the air domain had become one of the ends of war, not just a means of controlling land and sea. Despite the “Revolt of the Admirals” — prompted in part by the planned creation of the department — the re-organization succeeded. Today, the lack of an independent air domain service would be unthinkable to most policymakers.
And yet, war changed again as space became a key area of operation. Congress authorized the “Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization” to investigate the military’s posture in space in 2000. When its own report was released in 2001, the idea of an independent space force gained new traction.
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