US Military Lessons from Ukraine War: Missile Threats & Electronic Warfare

Evolving Missile Threats

• 🚀 Novel missile systems, such as hypersonic glide vehicles, are rapidly changing the strategic environment by compressing decision timelines.
• 💡 These advanced systems challenge traditional early warning systems and the ability to track and intercept threats.
• ⚠️ The speed, maneuverability, and ambiguity of these technologies impact deterrence and escalation control in crises.

Posturing for Future Threats

• 🎯 Admiral Correll expresses confidence in current US strategic command's ability to survive preemptive attacks and provide response options.
• 🔍 The focus is on making the targeting problem too hard for adversaries through operational approaches and tactics.
• 🛰️ Advancing space-based sensor capability and other sensing technologies are crucial for detecting and tracking novel missile systems.

Lessons from Ukraine's Electromagnetic Warfare

• ⚡ The conflict in Ukraine highlights the critical role of electronic warfare, including jamming and spoofing, in disrupting communications and command and control.
• 🪖 Both sides are employing these techniques in real-time, demonstrating the need to fight and survive in degraded or denied electromagnetic environments.
• 🔄 The rapid pace of move and counter-move in contesting the electromagnetic spectrum requires agility and new operational concepts for future success.
• 🛰️ Adversaries could apply lessons learned from Ukraine's electronic warfare tactics to US strategic forces.