3 December 2015
...The CSBA report is more broadly concerned with EMS (electromagnetic systems) warfare, which includes many smaller and more insidious tactics designed to mess with enemy computer systems. Military forces are now highly computerized; the CSBA compares it to the revolution smartphones and the Internet have brought to the private sector. Weapons designed to baffle sensor equipment and distort communications have grown commensurately more effective.
According to the “Winning the Airwaves” report, the U.S. is losing the airwaves. In short, the authors believe the United States failed to make the necessary investments in EMS technology after the end of the Cold War, a pause which “provided China, Russia, and other rivals with an opportunity to field systems that target vulnerabilities in sensor and communication networks the U.S. military has come to depend on.” As a result, we are on the verge of losing our qualitative edge in EMS warfare, or may have lost it already...
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