The electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) is one of the most critical domains in modern warfare. While militaries have long used it to communicate, keep track of friendly forces and find and target enemies, emerging technological advances now promise to dramatically change how they will use the EMS in the future. In the same way that smartphones and the Internet are redefining how the world shares, shops, learns and works, new sensors and networking technologies will enable militaries to gain significant new advantages over competitors that fail to keep pace.

In an interview with Vago Muradian of Defense News, Mark Gunzinger explains that the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) will fill a critical capability gap for the Air Force and anchor a future family of systems that will give the United States the ability to strike any future global target.

Mark Gunzinger and Bryan Clark discuss their recently-released report, Sustaining America's Precision Strike Advantage, with Vago Muradian on Defense News

Today, all of CSBA’s senior scholars join dozens of experts from a bipartisan group of think tanks in calling for reforms to the Department of Defense.

The campaign against Serbia in 1999 averaged 138 strike sorties daily. Against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria: seven.

The U.S. Navy’s move toward developing a carried-based unmanned combat aircraft might eventually afford the service the ability to strike targets at long-range, but there are ethical and legal questions that linger should the Pentagon develop a fully autonomous system.