U.S. Fleet Cyber Command

During the Iraq invasion, you played a pivotal role on the Joint Staff in formalizing computer network attack and defense as a military discipline, subsequently serving as Director of Intelligence for Pacific Command in 2007, and for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2009.

In 2011, you were appointed commander of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command 10th Fleet, becoming the first restricted line officer to hold a numbered fleet command.

From 2014 to 2018, you concurrently served as director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command.

one of the first to hold both positions simultaneously.

Let's have a powerful military.

Yeah, let's have a powerful military in order to achieve specific kinds of outcomes.

Well, in 2011, during the Iraq invasion, and you were leading Fleet Cyber Command, what did you do in terms of leading then to make this successful for the U.S.?

Number one, I was a three-star then.