El Ej\u00e9rcito de EE UU est\u00e1 desarrollando su doctrina para lo que llama \u201cventaja de la informaci\u00f3n\u201d , destinada a ayudar a los comandantes a tomar mejores decisiones y m\u00e1s r\u00e1pido. Para eso ha llevado a cabo varios experimentos y tiene otros m\u00e1s en el horizonte para determinar c\u00f3mo los comandantes t\u00e1cticos deben emplear capacidades no cin\u00e9ticas como la guerra cibern\u00e9tica, electr\u00f3nica u operaciones de informaci\u00f3n a nivel local o c\u00f3mo solicitar asistencia de escalones superiores para incluir los equipos cibern\u00e9ticos m\u00e1s estrat\u00e9gicos del Comando Cibern\u00e9tico de EE.UU.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON \u2014 The Army is still experimenting with the right command-and-control mechanisms for information advantage capabilities across various echelons and regions, a service official said this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe command and control of information advantage activities is something that quite honestly we\u2019re going to have to learn through doing,\u201d Brig. Gen. Paul Stanton, commander of the Army Cyber Center of Excellence, told C4ISRNET at the annual Association of the U.S. Army conference in an Oct. 13 interview.<\/p>\n
The service is in the midst of developing its doctrine for what it calls\u00a0information advantage<\/a>, meant to help commanders make better informed and quicker decisions that give them a leg up.<\/p>\n The Army has conducted several experiments and has several more on the horizon to determine how tactical commanders should employ non-kinetic capabilities like cyber, electronic warfare or information operations locally or how to ask for assistance from higher echelons to include the more strategic cyber teams from U.S. Cyber Command.<\/p>\n The Army wants to decide which units will perform certain activities and how they will tie into higher headquarters.<\/p>\n \u201cWhere do we put those units of action, where do we put the command and control and how do we nest that command and control within our regional and aligned combatant commands? We don\u2019t know the answer to that, which is why we\u2019re experimenting,\u201d Stanton said.<\/p>\n He\u00a0previously said<\/a>\u00a0the Army is experimenting with two models, giving these responsibilities to a staff section and to a command.<\/p>\n The service is also considering creating a special staff section within each echelon focused on information capabilities,\u00a0dubbed a G-39<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re looking at an option of the G-39 being a command-and-control element nested within the [operations staff section], nested within the command,\u201d Stanton said, noting the Army has to take into consideration the roles, responsibilities and authorities of all the organizations.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat you\u2019re allowed to do for military deception operations is very different from what you\u2019re allowed to do from public affairs messaging is very different from what you do in terms of achieving a strategic cyber effect,\u201d he said. \u201cPutting all those pieces together is the future command-and-control model that we have to experiment and learn.\u201d<\/p>\n On the cyber front, the Army is \u201cputting our toe into new waters\u201d when it comes to employing tactical cyber effects, mostly through the radio frequency spectrum, Stanton said.<\/p>\n He noted the Army must consider the target audiences for information operations.<\/p>\n \u201cHow an individual country in the Indo-Pacific, what social media they use, what actual television, what literature they read, what matters to them is very different than if I pick a country in Europe,\u201d Stanton said. \u201cBeing tied to the headquarters that has the responsibly for a theater, we\u2019re going to have to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n The conventional force, he added, is learning from its special operations and\u00a0special forces partners in the Army<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAnother huge lesson from the SOF community is they\u2019re forward,\u201d Stanton said. \u201cThey have folks that are embedded, boots on the ground in lots of different locations where they understand who the influencers are. It\u2019s one thing to deliver a message, it\u2019s something different to deliver a message that\u2019s actually going to have an impact and change behaviors.\u201d<\/p>\n The Army is also looking to make better use of its\u00a0public affairs personnel<\/a>\u00a0under the context of information advantage.<\/p>\n \u201cA key player is public affairs. Public affairs tells the truth. Period. Full stop,\u201d Stanton said. \u201cBut the truth is critically important and the timeliness of the truth is critically important.\u201d<\/p>\n He said public affairs messaging can\u2019t be reactionary, but rather needs to be thought out, delivered at the right time and supportive of a commander\u2019s tempo.<\/p>\n