1.2 Basics of Information Warfare
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Department of Defense launched a new set of measures for the innovative development of armed forces called the defense innovation initiative (DII), aimed at implementing the strategy of complete military superiority of the United States over all
potential adversaries, primarily Russia and China. This is the third such strategy.
The first strategy to ensure the military superiority of the United States (Offset
Strategy) was based on nuclear weapons and their means of delivery and, according
to American experts [2, 3], was successfully implemented during the Cold War.
The basis of this strategy and measures for its implementation included the first
theoretical substantiation of technologies providing military superiority (technology
offset strategy), developed by Admiral William Perry (William J. Perry), when he
was the US Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering [4]. It can
be considered that periodic publications in public media of some elements of such
strategies are a kind of “invitation” to potential opponents of the United States to
participate in the “arms race.”
The second strategy was based on the synergistic effect from the use of precision
weapons, space reconnaissance systems, missile and air defense systems (MD/AD),
as well as technologies to reduce the visibility of weapons and military equipment.
The main objective of the Third Offset Strategy implemented in 2014 is primarily
based on information technology and aimed at achieving absolute US military superiority over all potential adversaries with modern means of countering (blocking)
access to their own or controlled territories (Anti-Access/Area Denial, A2/AD). In
particular, such A2/AD means include information and technical support of the
weapon system, including high-precision weapons (HPW) and various types of
defense systems (air defense system, space defense system, missile defense system,
anti-surface unit warfare, antisubmarine system) and electronic warfare systems
(EWS).
At the same time, absolute superiority in this strategy is understood as the unconditional achievement of military success in all areas—in space, in the air, in the sea,
on land, and, naturally, in cyberspace.
The choice of the program code name (“quickness”) is not accidental. The main
tasks of the strategy are as follows [1, 4–7]:
– Military operations based on large scale and integrated use of the capabilities of
robotic systems;
– Air operations using long-range stealth aircraft;
– Submarine warfare using autonomous complexes consisting of various technical
equipments;
– Design of integrated systems of weapons and military equipment (WME) and
their rapid integration into a single intelligent weapon system.
As part of the implementation of the Third Offset Strategy, five integrated R&D
areas were identified as follows:
– Information technology for managing autonomous machines and systems capable
of continuous automatic learning;
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Department of Defense launched a new set of measures for the innovative development of armed forces called the defense innovation initiative (DII), aimed at implementing the strategy of complete military superiority of the United States over all
potential adversaries, primarily Russia and China. This is the third such strategy.
The first strategy to ensure the military superiority of the United States (Offset
Strategy) was based on nuclear weapons and their means of delivery and, according
to American experts [2, 3], was successfully implemented during the Cold War.
The basis of this strategy and measures for its implementation included the first
theoretical substantiation of technologies providing military superiority (technology
offset strategy), developed by Admiral William Perry (William J. Perry), when he
was the US Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering [4]. It can
be considered that periodic publications in public media of some elements of such
strategies are a kind of “invitation” to potential opponents of the United States to
participate in the “arms race.”
The second strategy was based on the synergistic effect from the use of precision
weapons, space reconnaissance systems, missile and air defense systems (MD/AD),
as well as technologies to reduce the visibility of weapons and military equipment.
The main objective of the Third Offset Strategy implemented in 2014 is primarily
based on information technology and aimed at achieving absolute US military superiority over all potential adversaries with modern means of countering (blocking)
access to their own or controlled territories (Anti-Access/Area Denial, A2/AD). In
particular, such A2/AD means include information and technical support of the
weapon system, including high-precision weapons (HPW) and various types of
defense systems (air defense system, space defense system, missile defense system,
anti-surface unit warfare, antisubmarine system) and electronic warfare systems
(EWS).
At the same time, absolute superiority in this strategy is understood as the unconditional achievement of military success in all areas—in space, in the air, in the sea,
on land, and, naturally, in cyberspace.
The choice of the program code name (“quickness”) is not accidental. The main
tasks of the strategy are as follows [1, 4–7]:
– Military operations based on large scale and integrated use of the capabilities of
robotic systems;
– Air operations using long-range stealth aircraft;
– Submarine warfare using autonomous complexes consisting of various technical
equipments;
– Design of integrated systems of weapons and military equipment (WME) and
their rapid integration into a single intelligent weapon system.
As part of the implementation of the Third Offset Strategy, five integrated R&D
areas were identified as follows:
– Information technology for managing autonomous machines and systems capable
of continuous automatic learning;