The U.S. doesn’t need a Cyber Force: it needs to prioritize cybersecurity

The second Trump administration may have begun its term by DOGE-ing its way through whole agencies, but the tides seem to be changing. Now comes a new Beltway push to add another bureaucracy to the federal behemoth. The administration should instead stick to its anti-bloat guns.

Advocates for a new U.S. Cyber Force, including Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas), argue that cyber capabilities are both critical to modern military success and routinely ignored by the traditional services. They are right about that, and this under-prioritization by the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and now Space Force has led to too few cyber experts trained sufficiently or appropriately, or optimized for cyber operations that aren’t directly tied to more traditional land, air or sea missions.

The solution to this problem, advocates propose, is to go around the existing services by creating a standalone Cyber Force. But that would be a mistake. The problems of an old, costly and cumbersome bureaucracy are not likely to be solved by a new one.

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