Space and Electronic Warfare, A Navy Policy Paper on a New Warfare Area

Abstract

As a matter of policy, industrialized nations use technology to facilitate the substitution of capital for labor in warfighting. That is, the policy is to shoot more and fight less. Technological development and insertion has increased the rate of substitution dramatically. Electronics technologies in particular are responsible for the revolution in warfare. They appear in precision guided weapons, integrated surveillance systems including space based systems, high speed decision aids, netted command and control systems, and increasingly sophisticated command and control, communications, and electronic combat systems. Once considered visionary, such capabilities are now reality. As a result, a relatively few important capital targets can be destroyed quickly with profound effect and a new warfare area, Space and Electronic Warfare (SEW), has emerged.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA338983

Entities

People

  • M. S. Loescher

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Aircrafts
  • Combat Areas
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Electronic Countermeasures
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Signals Intelligence
  • Surveillance
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Microelectronics
  • Space