An Outsider’s Look at the United States Cyber Command: The 10TH Unified and 4TH Functional Combatant Command

The 10TH Unified and 4TH Functional Combatant Command
The United States (U.S.), along with its allies and potential foes, are witnessing an unprecedented fast–paced evolution of the 21st century cyberspace domain landscape. As it relates to our military advancements, key milestones have included: the establishment of the U.S. Cyber Command or USCYBERCOM on June 23, 2009; the direction to elevate its status to a Unified Combatant Command (UCC) focused on cyberspace operations on August 18, 2017; and its formal promotion to become our nation’s 10th UCC and 4th Functional Combatant Command (FCC) on May 4, 2018 . . .