FDD’s Montgomery identifies lack of explicit DOD assignments as ‘shortcoming’ of international cyber strategy

The Department of Defense should have a more clearly delineated role to play in international capacity-building under the State Department’s new cybersecurity strategy, according to retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

The State Department published the international cyber strategy on Monday, outlining four focus areas with specific lines of effort for advancing each, prior to Secretary Antony Blinken’s keynote at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco.

Montgomery said in a statement...