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It gets hazy. Here's a little article about the armed personnel side of the agency.

https://www.nsa.gov/About/Central-Security-Service/

> The NSA cannot conduct acts of war, because they are not military personnel.

The first part does not follow from the second; also the NSA director is a uniformed military officer.

Though the US military has a separate cyber warfare combatant command, too.

He's a uniformed military officer BECAUSE he also leads US CYBERCOM.

The NSA is a joint military-civilian agency by design. Its a pretty unique org structure, with military personnel reporting to civilians and civilians reporting to military at various levels.