Consider using military capabilities for covert action
What the document says“the President should consider whether DOD’s complete set of capabilities should be used to support potential covert actions.”
The chapter notes that certain Defense Department clandestine capabilities under Title 10 can generally be used outside a combat theatre only if they count as traditional military activities, which in practice means many capabilities in the space and cyber domains can be used only after armed conflict begins. It raises using them for covert action as something to consider rather than as a recommendation.
What the document actually says“the President should consider whether DOD’s complete set of capabilities should be used to support potential covert actions.”
The military has secret tools of its own. The president should think about using them for secret work.
The military has secret abilities. Rules limit when it can use them. Usually a war must have started. The book says the president should think about changing that.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The chapter raises this as something for the President to consider rather than as a recommendation, so there is no definite proposal to answer. Nothing indexed here addresses the use of Defense Department clandestine capabilities under Title 10 to support covert action. The nearest candidates are two notices continuing an emergency over foreign advancement in sensitive technologies, which restrict investment and do not touch military authorities. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.