Saturday, November 5, 2011

JED Magazine November 2011


This month, Washington, DC, will play host to the 48th Annual AOC Symposium & Convention. The theme of this year's event is "Victory Through the EMS." For an aviator, soldier or sailor, this might seem a bit myopic. The aviator might think in terms of victory through air power. The sailor might think about victory through sea power. And the soldier might think of victory through land power. For them, electronic warfare and the electromagnetic spectrum have historically been adjuncts to the way they fight. For that airman, air power is about aircraft and their performance and lethality. Air power isn't about the radar, the missiles, the datalinks, the targeting system or anything else that uses the EMS. And it almost certainly isn't about EW. The same is true of the sailor, who thinks of sea power in terms of ships or the soldier who thinks in terms of rifles or tanks. How do we change these perceptions?

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