Cybercom

The authority you operate under determines the oversight you answer to. The current habit of laundering Title 10 activity through Title 50 framings, and the reverse, breaks the system the Congress built.

The debate over a separate cyber force has focused on whether to create a new uniformed service. The harder question, which the service-branch debate obscures, is what authority architecture the cyber mission actually requires.

The strategic gap that matters in the cyber competition is not capability per operator. It is operator count and operator pipeline. The People's Republic of China understood this earlier and built around it.