The Army is already struggling to man its new cyber units — and now it wants to expand their ranks and responsibilities for a new mission.

The Army wants to move much faster in cyberspace against espionage, subversion, and disinformation — but that means accepting higher risks.

“The Russians are really good at this, better than us,” said the UK’s Maj. Gen. Felix Gedney, who just wrapped up a year as deputy commander of Operation Inherent Resolve. “We saw a very clever, assiduous information campaign aimed at discrediting the campaign of the coalition. And I would argue in many of our nation’s capitals, we didn’t realize we were being played.”