作者：Mark Pomerleau

一名美国士兵在叙利亚Manbij外一个村庄附近的分界线上进行协调独立巡逻时提供安全保障。（职员中士Timothy R. Koster /陆军）

负责针对ISIS的美国军方数字团队现在专注于为该机构提供有助于识别特定个人的情报，这将限制ISIS集团的融资。

“我们所做的大约90％都是情报事务”，陆军准将Len Anderson于9月16表示，他目前是联合特遣部队 - 阿瑞斯的副司令。

联合特遣部队 - 阿瑞斯是美国网络司令部对伊斯兰国作战的网络战部队，它与动能作战行动携手合作，作为作战行动内在解决方案的一部分，全球联盟的任务是使该ISIS组织撤出伊拉克和叙利亚。

该任务最初由美国陆军网络司令部管理，海军陆战队司令部网络空间司令部在2018年秋季开始负责该任务。

Len Anderson将军解释说，特遣部队必须遍布伊斯兰国，它需要为军事指挥官以及有意阻挠该集团全球影响力的高级领导人提供情报和战场方案选择。

“现在，当这种ISIS哈里发在实体上已经消失了，我们专注于数字哈里发，这是世界范围内......这就是JTF-Ares作战的地方，”安德森说。

安德森说，阿瑞斯可以提供独特的情报。首先，该团队可以向国家机构提供情报信息。他说，在执行任务的过程中，网络运营商正在观察ISIS在网上做什么，他将网络运营商与作战人员连接起来。这可能包括需要进一步审查的可疑恐怖主义融资。

“我们将所有这些情报推回到整个国家情报数据中。这可以被国务院、财政部，任何其他人用来获得财政部的称号 - 这对JTF-Ares来说是一个胜利，“安德森说。“我可能没有必要按下一个输入密钥并摧毁任何人的服务器......但如果我能够对某人进行恐怖主义指认并使他们更难以通过互联网转移资金，那么我就赢得了那个特殊的领域。我们不会让他们在那里不受约束地运作。“

其次，阿瑞斯特遣部队可能为世界各地部队提供必要的情报。

例如，在阿富汗，阿瑞斯可以帮助弥补缺乏情报、监视和侦察部队或缺乏动力。

他说：“我们进入这些恐怖分子网络的唯一选择是通过非动力手段或通过联合特遣部队 - 阿瑞斯。”

对于其他恐怖组织，安德森说，在他们“研究”基地组织正在做的事情时，阿瑞斯必须优先考虑其资源面临的威胁。

“就目前而言，就西方威胁或外部行动而言，它主要是以ISIS为重点。他们现在对我们来说是最危险的，“他说。“由于我们在反恐行业的广泛伙伴关系，不仅如此，而且与国家反恐中心，我们都知道并将准备与基地组织或基地组织成员合作。”

原文：

How Cyber Command can limit the reach of ISIS

By: Mark Pomerleau  

The U.S. military’s digital team tasked with targeting ISIS is now focused on providing agencies intelligence that will help identify specific individuals and that will limit the group’s financing.

“About 90 percent of what we do is intelligence,” Brig. Gen. Len Anderson, deputy commander of Joint Task Force-Ares, said Sept. 16.

Joint Task Force-Ares is the U.S. Cyber Command digital offensive against ISIS that worked hand-in-hand with the kinetic operations as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the global coalition tasked with ridding the group from Iraq and Syria.

Originally run by Army Cyber Command, Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command was tasked with the mission in the fall of 2018.

Anderson explained that the task force has to be everywhere ISIS is and it needs to provide intelligence and battlefield options to military commanders as well as senior leaders who are interested in thwarting the group’s global presence.

“Now, as that physical caliphate has gone away, we’re focused on the digital caliphate, which is worldwide … that’s where JTF-Ares is going to be," Anderson said.

Anderson said Ares can provide unique intelligence. First, the team can feed information to national agencies. Equating his cyber operators to pilots, he said on the way to a mission, the cyber operators are observing what ISIS is doing online. This could include suspicious terrorist financing that needs to be examined further.

“We push all this intelligence right back into the overall national intelligence data. That could be used by Department of State, Department of Treasury, anybody else to get a Treasury designation – that’s a win for JTF-Ares,” Anderson said. “I might not have had to hit an enter key and destroy anybody’s server … but if I can get a terrorist designation on somebody and make it harder for them to move their money across the internet, I won in that particular realm. We’re not letting them operate unfettered out there.”

Second, Ares can potentially provide the necessarily intelligence to forces around the world where troops are not on the ground.

For example, in Afghanistan, Ares could help make up for a lack of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance forces or a lack of kinetic forces.

“Our only option to go in and get after these terrorists is going to be through non-kinetic means or through Joint Task Force-Ares,” he said.

In regards to other terrorist organizations, Anderson said while they are “studying” what al-Qaeda is doing, Ares has to prioritize threats given its resources.

“Right now, as far as threats to the West or external operations, it’s going to be primarily ISIS focused. They’re the ones that are most dangerous to us now,” he said. “Due to our broad partnership across the counterterrorism industry and not only that but with the National Counterterrorism Center we are aware and will be prepared to act with al-Qaeda or al-Qaeda operatives.”

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