Richardcyoung.com

  • Home
  • Debbie Young
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Key West
  • Your Survival Guy
  • How We Are Different
  • Paris
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • The Swiss Way
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • Dick Young
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool
  • Anti-Gun Control
  • Anti-Digital Currency
  • Joel Salatin & Alfie Oakes
  • World Gold Mine Production
  • Fidelity & Wellington Since 1971
  • Hillsdale College
  • Babson College
  • Contact Us

Where’s the Most Aggressive Electronic Warfare Environment on the Planet?

April 27, 2018 By Steve Schneider

The U.S. is “in the most aggressive EW [electronic warfare] environments on the planet,” says U.S. Army General Raymond Thomas at GEOINT 2018. In Syria, Russia continues to fine tune and develop a total package of EW Systems, and like Ukraine, Moscow is using Syria as a test bed to perfect EW systems.

Some EW experts are saying that Russia’s military has organizationally surpassed the U.S. in terms of Electronic Warfare.  As Moscow continues technological advances in EW, its forces are learning to jam, disrupt, and interfere with communications, radar, and other sensor systems.

Russia is jamming U.S. aircraft and drones operating over Syria, seriously affecting American military operations, according to U.S. officials. Roger McDermott, Senior International Research Fellow for the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) points out in his report, Russia’s Electronic Warfare Capabilities to 2025, “NATO needs to plan, revise its scenarios, and train to conduct defensive and offensive operations in a fiercely contested EMS battlespace.”

Nevertheless, there are important implications for the Alliance in the progress made in EW by Russia’s Armed Forces, as well as the likely long-term persistence of these trends in military modernisation and transformation. Above all else, it requires recognition that, through such “force multipliers”, the end result of the ongoing transformation of Russian’s Armed Forces will offer a conventional capability way beyond that possessed by the Soviet legacy force of the 1990s.112 If conflict with Russia ever erupts on NATO’s Eastern Flank, the first sign of activity will be in the EMS—and in this spectrum the initiative and advantage will be determined. Moscow appears to perceive this as an area of possible weakness on the part of the Alliance, and has therefore invested in further strengthening this capability. This means that NATO must change its approaches to policy, doctrine, organisation, capabilities, training, tactics and procedures, and exercise scenarios.113 These advances have not gone unnoticed by some US EW officers. In December 2015, Colonel Jeffrey Church, chief of the Army staff at the Pentagon’s Electronic Warfare Division, identified the extent to which the Russian military may have organisationally surpassed their American counterparts in terms of EW. Addressing a meeting of EW specialists in Washington DC, Church explained:

“The Russians train to it. They have electronic warfare units, they have electronic warfare equipment that those trained soldiers use, and then they incorporate it into their training. We do not have EW units, we have very little equipment, and we do very little EW training. It’s not that we could not be as good as or better than them, it’s just that right now we choose not to.”

Video: Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command at GEOINT 2018

Video: Roger McDermott on Russia’s Electronic Warfare Capabilities to 2025

Related Posts

  • Trench Warfare
  • Neutrality Almost Always Aids the Aggressive Carnivore
  • Class Warfare is Holding America Back
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Steve Schneider
Steve Schneider
Steve Schneider is a weapons specialist for Richardcyoung.com. He is our website and graphic design specialist for Youngsworldmoneyforcast.com, Richardcyoung.com, and Youngresearch.com. Steve customizes and creates all of the images and political cartoons on our websites.
Steve Schneider
Latest posts by Steve Schneider (see all)
  • Could U.S. Overextension in the Mideast Hand Beijing a Strategic Advantage? - June 20, 2025
  • Israel Faces Arrow Interceptor Shortage After Iranian Missile Barrage - June 18, 2025
  • Canadian Shipbuilder Targets U.S. Arctic Contracts - June 17, 2025

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • DIGITAL DOLLAR DOOMSDAY: The Wall Street Journal Is NOT Going to Tell You This
  • Hungarian Hardliner Viktor Orban Shows European Globalists the Way
  • Your Survival Guy at Fidelity and Your RMD Compliance
  • Families to Step up and Be Family Again
  • Gold/Silver Coins No Longer Allowed in Safe Deposit Boxes
  • Your Best State on Guns, Plus the 8th Wonder of the World
  • Victor Davis Hanson: How to Bust DC’s Stronghold
  • Set Sail with Stocks
  • What a Way to Make a Living: New Hampshire #1
  • Feds Raid America’s Number One Patriot: Naples Florida’s Alfie Oakes

Compensation was paid to utilize rankings. Click here to read full disclosure.

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report from Feb. 1987
  • America’s Energy Boom: Record Net Exports and Rising Renewables
  • Senate Passes First U.S. Stablecoin Regulation Bill
  • Game-Changing Vision: Meta and Oakley Unveil AI Performance Eyewear
  • A Great Victory for Liberty
  • Letchworth: Are You Living Your Best Retirement Life?
  • Job Openings Rise in Four States, National Rate Steady
  • Ethane Shipments Stall as U.S.-China Trade Tensions Rise
  • Historic Tax Cuts Across All States
  • Are You Familiar with the EF and Arithmetic?

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report from Feb. 1987
  • Private Equity Is the Next Big Thing Coming for YOU
  • The Wildlife in Kansas
  • PRECIOUS: Silver and Gold
  • June Rage Gauge: Best Déjeuners in Paris
  • Letchworth: Are You Living Your Best Retirement Life?
  • Will SALT Kill the “One Big Beautiful Bill?”
  • You’ve Read the Last Issue of Intelligence Report: Back to Investor’s Yield
  • The Sound of Silence?
  • Are You Familiar with the EF and Arithmetic?

US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

My Key West Garden Office

Your Retirement Life: Traveling the Efficient Frontier

Live a Long Life

Your Survival Guy’s Mt. Rushmore of Investing Legends

“Then One Day the Grandfather was Gone”

Copyright © 2025 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives