Cyber Operators Are Deployed in Place. The Pentagon Should Treat Them That Way

A cyber operator can spend a shift tracking an adversary halfway around the world, walk to the parking lot, and be home in time for dinner. There is no flight home, no demobilization, and no transition from an operational mission back to ordinary life. The war zone is a commute away. That arrangement looks like one of the advantages of cyber warfare. It is also becoming one of its human costs.Bloomberg reported in August that as many as five people working at or alongside U.S. Cyber Command took their own lives in a five-week period in June and July this The post Cyber Operators Are Deployed i