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Information operations as a core competency
Joint Force Quarterly, Dec, 2004 by Christopher J. Lamb
The Defense Department has produced lists of enhancements for network defense, some of which have been implemented. Missing is an overarching strategy that takes limited resources into account, chooses an approach to network defense among alternatives, and balances the alternatives and associated resource requirements against known risks. A tailored strategy, carefully constructed and managed with near- and long-term objectives, would more likely give senior leaders confidence that additional investments in network defense will ensure the graceful degradation of the network rather than its collapse. This is a tall order given the complexity of our ever-changing networks and the evolving threat, but it is essential if we want to avoid building a critical vulnerability into our information-reliant transformed forces.
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Improve network and electromagnetic attack capability. Our forces must dominate the electromagnetic spectrum with attack capabilities to prevail in an information centric fight. Too much of the electronic warfare effort has been focused on electronic protection for discrete platforms. Electronic attack capability is invariably in short supply and cannot operate with sufficient freedom across the battlespace. To keep up with the explosion of commercial and government products that exploit the electromagnetic spectrum for military ends, DOD needs a robust suite of EW and CNO capabilities with increased reliability through improved command and control, assurance testing, and refined tactics and procedures. Yet the Department lacks a coherent EW vision and investment strategy. Current programs are service-specific, with decentralized development and operations.
The Pentagon needs a capability to provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum, denying, degrading, disrupting, or destroying a broad range of enemy sensors, command and control, and critical support infrastructures. The roadmap recommended, and DOD established, an Electronic Warfare Executive Steering Group, led by the Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. The group is charged with developing a multiservice investment strategy and providing more effective oversight of the development of EW systems and operational architectures. It will oversee creation of an EW roadmap that provides an architecture and investment strategy. The I0 roadmap lays down criteria for an EW roadmap, including the need for options that improve operator access to the full suite of EW programs and to changes in policies and procedures for delegating authority to apportion, allocate, and use such capabilities.
Increase psychological operations capabilities. Iraqi Freedom again highlighted the role of PSYOP to the joint commander and the need for improvement. Though helpful, PSYOP found it difficult to keep up with fast-moving forces that needed tailored messages delivered immediately prior to combat to achieve the desired effect.
To better support combatant commanders, PSYOP must focus on adversary decisionmaking. It must be planned well in advance to achieve the powerful behavior modification desired. Its products require in-depth knowledge of the audience's decisionmaking processes and factors influencing them. Additionally, the products must be rapidly developed, with quality deliverables and messages disseminated directly to targeted audiences throughout an area of operations.
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