Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne compares Billy Mitchell’s efforts to prove airpower’s potential to the effort facing USAF today to prove that cyberspace is a critically important warfighting domain. He writes in a new letter to airmen, “Our cyber airmen’s work is a prerequisite to all military operations: ensuring freedom of action across the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS), which in turn contributes to freedom from attack and freedom to attack in all other domains—land, sea, air, and space.”
As it develops new weapons to attack satellites, the U.S. Space Force is focused more on ground-based efforts where the technology is more mature, the service’s top general said April 3.