AUGUSTA, Ga. — Army Cyber Command’s forthcoming Theater Information Advantage Detachment is expected to help the service better compete against adversaries in the so-called competition phase below armed conflict.
The TIADs are a new growth for the Army. There will eventually be three to include ARCYBER’s — which will be focused on transregional threats — as well as one focused on the Pacific and another on Europe.
Experts and officials have acknowledged that the U.S. military has ceded some ground to adversaries when it comes to the competition space. America’s enemies have discovered the importance of being active in the information dimension below the threshold of conflict in order to shape potential operations and even achieve objectives without firing a shot…