They do more than cybersecurity, they collect and analyze signals intelligence. Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan in the CIA would be in Unit 8200 if he was Israeli -- the unit is not at all purely "techy" in nature. They are also significantly responsible for "analysis" such as target selection, as covered here https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

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oliwarner a day ago | parent [-]

Giving Jack Ryan as a example of a sigint analyst is vastly sensationalist for what is essentially —for the non-fictonal majority doing it— an office job, only with security clearance and real world implications.

	▲	dundarious a day ago \| parent [-]
		That aspect wasn't my intent, but in the Red October movie for example, he states that his job is "sitting in an office and writing books", and the story revolves around him doing things that are explicitly not his job, and him confronting how "green" he is for all the field work of the latter half. I was specifically thinking of that line about sitting in an office writing books, analyzing, strategizing, justifying and criticizing, all of which are crucial guides to action -- hardly something you could describe as "just a tech job", for example.