{"id":6491,"date":"2026-03-03T03:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/cyber-space-commands-were-a-first-mover-in-strikes-on-iran-top-general\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T03:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:14:53","slug":"cyber-space-commands-were-a-first-mover-in-strikes-on-iran-top-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/cyber-space-commands-were-a-first-mover-in-strikes-on-iran-top-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber, Space Commands were a &#8216;first mover&#8217; in strikes on Iran: top general"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>U.S. Cyber Command and\u00a0Space Command\u00a0were among the \u201cfirst movers\u201d to begin \u201clayering non-kinetic effects\u201d as the U.S. launched its war on Iran over the weekend, the nation&#8217;s top officer said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoordinated space and cyber operations effectively disrupted communications and sensor networks across the area of responsibility, leaving the adversary without the ability to see, coordinate or respond effectively,\u201d Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs,\u00a0said in a Monday press briefing at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>Caine\u2019s acknowledgment, though lacking detail,\u00a0signals a continued willingness by U.S. leaders to publicly describe cyber capabilities as an embedded element of large-scale combat operations, rather than as a separate, covert matter.<\/p>\n<p>After a U.S. military raid captured Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in January, President Trump suggested that U.S. cyber warriors played a role in efforts to cut power to Venezuela\u2019s capital and interfere with air defense radar. Some details of those efforts were previously reported by <em>Nextgov\/FCW<\/em> and <em>Defense One<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran-linked hackers are stepping up digital reconnaissance and preparing for potentially disruptive cyber activity following recent U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, cyber intelligence firms warned Monday. The war is expected to test U.S. cyber defenses, which have been left short-staffed by past year&#8217;s federal\u00a0workforce cuts.<svg class=\"content-tombstone\">\n<use xlink:href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/static\/base\/svg\/spritesheet.svg#icon-d1-logo-tiny\"\/>\n<\/svg><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '10155007044873614'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '1546266055584988',\n      autoLogAppEvents : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v2.11'\n    });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/threats\/2026\/03\/cyber-space-commands-were-first-mover-strikes-iran-top-general\/411819\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Cyber Command and\u00a0Space Command\u00a0were among the \u201cfirst movers\u201d to begin \u201clayering non-kinetic effects\u201d as the U.S. launched its war on Iran over the weekend, the nation&#8217;s top officer said Monday.\u00a0 \u201cCoordinated space and cyber operations effectively disrupted communications and sensor networks across the area of responsibility, leaving the adversary without the ability to see,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.defenseone.com\/media\/img\/cd\/2026\/03\/02\/030226CaineNG-1\/open-graph.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}