EXPERIENCE OF THE USA IN CREATING AND DEVELOPING CYBER COMMAND: LESSONS FOR UKRAINE

The article examines the experience of the United States, as a country with the most powerful cyber capabilities in the world, in creating, ensuring the operation and development of the Cyberсommand, in the context of possibility of using this experience by Ukraine during the development of its own Cyber Forces. It has been found that over the past 14 years, the United States managed to create and ensure the effective development of a structure that is key in the cyber defense of the country — USCYBERCOM, which has undergone a transformation from performing purely defensive functions to conducting large-scale offensive cyber operations of a strategic level and providing assistance (exporting its experience and capabilities) to other countries, providing the US with the status of a cyber-superpower. Ukraine also has the necessary potential to become a cyber-superpower by creating cyber forces within the structure of the Armed Forces, which will be able to conduct offensive cyber operations similar to the United States. The advantage of Ukraine lies in the unique experience we already have in countering Russian cyber aggression. The article provides proposals and defines conceptual approaches regarding the organizational and legal foundations of the creation and further functioning of cyber forces of Ukraine, taking into account the leading experience of the United States. It is substantiated that the creation of cyber forces, the development of their capabilities and the integration of the cyber component into the conduct of military operations can potentially become an alternative to nuclear deterrence, increase the effectiveness of the Armed Forces and increase the authority of Ukraine in the international arena. The need for the urgent development of national cyber defense capabilities, in particular the conduct of offensive cyber operations by cyber forces of Ukraine, is argued, taking into account the rapid development of cyber technologies and artificial intelligence in the military sphere, as well as the fact that cyber aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine will continue in a hybrid format even after the end of a full-scale military invasion.