Blinding the Eagle: Potential Loss of Strategic ISR in the 21st Century

Abstract

Anti-Access/Area-Denial (A2/AD) is a modern [term] referring to warfighting strategies focused on preventing an opponent from operating military forces near, into, or within a contested region.2 War against future enemies who employ platforms that deny US electro-magnetic capabilities and use cyber war will make the manned high-altitude Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance platform a necessity in achieving victory in A2/AD operations. Contested, denied, operations encompass those operations in which the ability of a unit or platform to operate within a specified domain is either contested or denied by adversarial forces in the same or adjacent domains.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 08, 2016
Accession Number
AD1031330

Entities

People

  • Matthew Sartori

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Department Of Defense
  • Ground Control Stations
  • High Altitude
  • Imagery Intelligence
  • National Security
  • Navies (Foreign)
  • Personnel Management
  • Radar
  • Signals Intelligence
  • Surveillance
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber