A press visit to Germany's Cyber and Information Domain Service on NATO's eastern flank reveals how the first battle of any crisis will be fought - invisibly, in the electromagnetic spectrum. From a Bundeswehr Dingo near the Belarusian border, Publisher Torsten Kriening reports on the CIR's Vigilant Owl mission, the doctrine of reconnaissance over jamming, and why the "first ping" between the pine trees and the deep view from orbit now belong to a single chain of warning.