Cyber electronic warfare

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Cyber electronic warfare (cyber EW) is any military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to control the domain characterized by the use of electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum to store, modify, and/or exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures.

Cyber EW consists of the following three activities: cyber electronic attack (cyber EA), cyber electronic protection (cyber EP), and cyber electronic warfare support (cyber ES). These three activities are defined as follows:

  • Cyber electronic attack (cyber EA) is the use of electromagnetic energy to attack an adversary’s electronics and/or access to the electromagnetic spectrum with the intent of degrading, neutralizing, or destroying an enemy’s ability to store, modify, and/or exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures.
  • Cyber electronic protection (cyber EP) is the passive and/or active means taken to protect electronics and/or access to the electromagnetic spectrum from any effects of friendly or enemy employment of cyber EW that degrades, neutralizes, or destroys ability to store, modify, and/or exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures.
  • Cyber electronic warfare support (cyber ES) is any action to search for, intercept, identify, locate, or localize sources of intentional and unintentional radiated electromagnetic energy radiating from electronics used to store, modify, and/or exchange data via networked systems for the purpose of immediate threat recognition, planning, and/or conduct of future operations.

The four terms suggested above are generated by combining the definitions for cyberspace, electronic warfare, electronic attack, electronic protection, and electronic warfare support.

NOTE: These stylized combinations of previously codified language are NOT definitions (as they would lead the reader to imply), but merely a linguistic mashup of currently accepted, perfectly adequate definitions. For example, Electronic Attack (as defined) uses radiant electromagnetic energy to attack ANY manner of susceptible target, whether "personnel, facilities or equipment" (JP 1-02). As such, the figurative reference to "Cyber EA" is actually already defined as "EA" ... the target and effect are transient features and therefore unworthy of inclusion into the accepted definition. Further, the narrowly defined subset defined by a portion of the intersection of EW and cyber activities above completely disregards the role of directed energy, electromagnetic pulse, lasers, other high-power microwave weapons or anti-radiation missiles as core components of Electronic Warfare.

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