WSJ Op Ed: The Future of Warfare is Electronic
Announcing our newest endeavor: CX2
Excited to share our Op Ed from the Wall Street Journal. We are officially out of stealth mode with CX2 an electronic warfare start up we are starting aiming to ensure the US maintains spectrum dominance in the 21st century. I cannot publish the full article here right now due to subscriber firewall, so I’ll merely publish the first couple of paragraphs as a teaser and subscribers can click above or below for the full article. I will update with the full version later when I have permission.
I’ll be sharing more on CX2 later.
The Future of Warfare Is Electronic
An audacious Ukrainian incursion into Russia shows why. Is the Pentagon paying enough attention?
By Porter Smith and Nathan Mintz
Speaking at the 2024 AFA Warfare Symposium, Gen. James Hecker described what the U.S. has learned from unmanned aerial vehicles—or UAVs—in Ukraine, and how they will change warfare. Images: AFP/Getty Images/U.S. Air Force via AP Composite: Mark Kelly.
By: Nathan Mintz and Porter Smith
The Ukrainian army has launched a stunning offensive into Kursk, Russia, under a shield of advanced electronic weapons. The war in Ukraine is demonstrating that 21st-century conflicts will be won or lost in the arena of electronic warfare.
Think of electronic warfare as casting spells on an invisible battlefield. Combatants strive to preserve their own signals, while disrupting those of the enemy. In Kursk, the Ukrainians took advantage of their technical knowledge to achieve a leap in battlefield tactics. Using a variety of electronic sensing systems, they managed to figure out the key Russian radio frequencies along the invasion route. They jammed these frequencies, creating a series of electronic bubbles that kept enemy drones away from Ukrainian forces, allowing reconnaissance units, tanks and mechanized infantry to breach the Russian border mostly undetected. This is the chaotic way of modern combat: a choreography of lightweight, unmanned systems driven by a spiderweb of electronic signals.
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