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The Department of Defense information network-Army is an essential warfighting platform that is a critical element of the command and control system and foundational to success in Army operations. Effectively operating, securing, and defending the network to maintain trust in its confidentiality, integrity, and availability is essential to commanders’ success at all echelons. A commander who cannot access or trust communications and information systems or the data they carry risks the loss of lives, loss of critical resources, or mission failure. At the same time, our adversaries and enemiesare also increasingly reliant on networks and networked weapons systems. The Army, as part of the joint force, must be prepared to exploit or deny our adversaries and enemies the operational advantages that these networks and Systems provide.
As the Army shifts its focus to large-scale combat operations against regional peers, we must anticipate that these threat actors will persistently attempt to infiltrate, exploit, and degrade access to our networks and data. In the future, as adversary and enemy capabilities grow, our continued dominance of cyberspace and the electromagnetic spectrum will become less certain, while at the same time our ability to access cyberspace and spectrum-dependent capabilities will become both more challenging and more critical to fight and win in multiple Domains.
Leveraging cyberspace and electromagnetic warfare effects throughout the competition continuum is key to achieving relative advantages through cyberspace and the electromagnetic spectrum while denying the same to our enemies and adversaries. To achieve these positions of relative advantage, commanders must integrate and synchronize cyberspace operations and electromagnetic warfare with all other available military capabilities using a combined arms approach. Moreover, intelligence, signal, information advantage activities, space, and fires capabilities are all critical to successful planning, synchronization, and execution of cyberspace operations and electromagnetic warfare. Commanders and staffs integrate and synchronize all of these capabilities across multiple domains and warfighting functions to maximize complementary effects in and through cyberspace and the electromagnetic Spectrum.
FM 3-12 defines and describes the principles and tactics to address challenges in the operational environment while providing an overview of cyberspace operations, electromagnetic warfare, and their planning, integration, and synchronization through the operations process. It describes the units that conduct these operations and how they enable accomplishment of commanders’ objectives in Army operations.
Due to the rapid evolution of friendly and threat capabilities, tactics, techniques, and procedures in cyberspace and the electromagnetic spectrum, the Cyber Center of Excellence will review and update FM 3-12 and supporting publications frequently in order to keep pace with the continuously evolving Operational environment.
NEIL S. HERSEY
Major General, U.S. Army
Commanding
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