No more hiding in the server closet: Cyber ops mentioned alongside kinetic warfare as critical to conflict

In what may be the most public acknowledgment of its cyber operations capabilities to date, the Pentagon has admitted that cyber soldiers are playing a key role in its attacks on Iran. 

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, discussed cyber operations in the same breath as traditional military domains during a Monday press conference he and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held to discuss the state of "Operation Epic Fury," as the dudes at the "Department of War" have taken to calling the US' ongoing strike on the Middle Eastern nation. 

"Across every domain, land, air, sea, cyber, the U.S. Joint Force delivered synchronized and layered effects designed to disrupt, degrade, deny and destroy Iran's ability to conduct and sustain combat operations," Caine said. 

Operators with US Cyber Command and Space Command were first movers in the invasion of Iran, "layering non-kinetic effects, disrupting and ...