United States Cyber Command deployed a team to Estonia in November 2020 as part of a new strategy that emphasises operating outside US networks. The mission, lasting from 23 September to 6 November and coinciding with the US presidential election, was reported by The New York Times on 3 December. The newspaper reported Brigadier General William J Hartman, commander of the Cyber National Mission Force, as saying that the ‘hunt forward’ mission allowed Cyber Command “to broadly observe Russian techniques in Estonia and compare them with Moscow’s tactics used in the United States”.

This mission reflects the public shift in US cyber strategy since the creation of Cyber Command in 2010. This new strategy, variously referred to using the terms ‘defend forward’ and ‘persistent engagement’, has been described in published strategy documents and the statements of senior officials, as well as in an accompanying body of academic work.

United States Cyber Command deployed a team to Estonia in November 2020 as part of a new strategy that emphasises operating outside US networks. The mission, lasting from 23 September to 6 November and coinciding with the US presidential election, was reported by The New York Times on 3 December. The newspaper reported Brigadier General William J Hartman, commander of the Cyber National Mission Force, as saying that the ‘hunt forward’ mission allowed Cyber Command “to broadly observe Russian techniques in Estonia and compare them with Moscow’s tactics used in the United States”.

This mission reflects the public shift in US cyber strategy since the creation of Cyber Command in 2010. This new strategy, variously referred to using the terms ‘defend forward’ and ‘persistent engagement’, has been described in published strategy documents and the statements of senior officials, as well as in an accompanying body of academic work.

United States Cyber Command deployed a team to Estonia in November 2020 as part of a new strategy that emphasises operating outside US networks. The mission, lasting from 23 September to 6 November and coinciding with the US presidential election, was reported by The New York Times on 3 December. The newspaper reported Brigadier General William J Hartman, commander of the Cyber National Mission Force, as saying that the ‘hunt forward’ mission allowed Cyber Command “to broadly observe Russian techniques in Estonia and compare them with Moscow’s tactics used in the United States”.

This mission reflects the public shift in US cyber strategy since the creation of Cyber Command in 2010. This new strategy, variously referred to using the terms ‘defend forward’ and ‘persistent engagement’, has been described in published strategy documents and the statements of senior officials, as well as in an accompanying body of academic work.

United States Cyber Command deployed a team to Estonia in November 2020 as part of a new strategy that emphasises operating outside US networks. The mission, lasting from 23 September to 6 November and coinciding with the US presidential election, was reported by The New York Times on 3 December. The newspaper reported Brigadier General William J Hartman, commander of the Cyber National Mission Force, as saying that the ‘hunt forward’ mission allowed Cyber Command “to broadly observe Russian techniques in Estonia and compare them with Moscow’s tactics used in the United States”.

This mission reflects the public shift in US cyber strategy since the creation of Cyber Command in 2010. This new strategy, variously referred to using the terms ‘defend forward’ and ‘persistent engagement’, has been described in published strategy documents and the statements of senior officials, as well as in an accompanying body of academic work.

United States Cyber Command deployed a team to Estonia in November 2020 as part of a new strategy that emphasises operating outside US networks. The mission, lasting from 23 September to 6 November and coinciding with the US presidential election, was reported by The New York Times on 3 December. The newspaper reported Brigadier General William J Hartman, commander of the Cyber National Mission Force, as saying that the ‘hunt forward’ mission allowed Cyber Command “to broadly observe Russian techniques in Estonia and compare them with Moscow’s tactics used in the United States”.

This mission reflects the public shift in US cyber strategy since the creation of Cyber Command in 2010. This new strategy, variously referred to using the terms ‘defend forward’ and ‘persistent engagement’, has been described in published strategy documents and the statements of senior officials, as well as in an accompanying body of academic work.

United States Cyber Command deployed a team to Estonia in November 2020 as part of a new strategy that emphasises operating outside US networks. The mission, lasting from 23 September to 6 November and coinciding with the US presidential election, was reported by The New York Times on 3 December. The newspaper reported Brigadier General William J Hartman, commander of the Cyber National Mission Force, as saying that the ‘hunt forward’ mission allowed Cyber Command “to broadly observe Russian techniques in Estonia and compare them with Moscow’s tactics used in the United States”.

This mission reflects the public shift in US cyber strategy since the creation of Cyber Command in 2010. This new strategy, variously referred to using the terms ‘defend forward’ and ‘persistent engagement’, has been described in published strategy documents and the statements of senior officials, as well as in an accompanying body of academic work.