The Land Information Assurance Group (LIAG) is a specialist

Army Reserve A military reserve force is a military organization whose members have military and civilian occupations. They are not normally kept under arms, and their main role is to be available when their military requires additional manpower. Reserve ...

unit

'On Information Warfare... Our potential adversaries may choose to adopt alternative weapons and unconventional (or asymmetric) strategies, perhaps attacking us through vulnerabilities in our open civil societies.'
Extract from The Strategic Defence Review, 1998

LIAG is a

Royal Signals The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals – abbreviated to R SIGNALS or R SIGS) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army. Signals units are among the first into action, providing the battlefield communi ...

sponsored unit under Operational Command of the Joint Force Cyber Group of the UK

Joint Forces Command The United Kingdom's Strategic Command (StratCom), previously known as Joint Forces Command (JFC), manages allocated joint capabilities from the three armed services. History Background In August 2010 the then Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, as ...

, having transferred from 11 Signal Brigade in Apr 2015. LIAG is a nationally recruited specialist unit. In this, it is unlike most Army Reserve units which recruit volunteers from a multitude of professional and personal backgrounds usually from a limited geographical area. LIAG, like the medical; legal and veterinary units consists entirely of specialists, in LIAG's case selected for their professional and technical Cyber skills. As such, they are spread around the UK, and the only training provided is on military skills. Although LIAG is sponsored by the Royal Signals, unusually it is a multi-cap-badged unit and has had personnel from several other Army Regiments and Corps, including the

Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...

; REME; RAMC; RLC; Intelligence Corps and several infantry regiments. It also has several officers who have previously served in the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

and the

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...

although they have to transfer to the Royal Signals in order to be accepted into the unit. Historically, it consisted entirely of commissioned Officers with the Officer Commanding and Command Group all being Lieutenant Colonels. The remainder of the unit is comprised in the main of Majors and Captains although there are now positions being recruited for specialist Other Ranks. According to the Royal Signals Institute, it has shifted under the operational command of

by April 2015.

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Land Information Assurance Group
on British Army official website Military communications Units and formations of the Royal Corps of Signals Army Reserve (United Kingdom) {{UK-mil-stub

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