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Technology and National Security: Enhancing Power Projection

This article explores the role of technology in national security, focusing on power projection capabilities, including precision-guided munitions, cyber warfare, and robotics. It delves into the revolution in military affairs and the concept of information dominance, while discussing the implications of cyberspace as a new realm of warfare and the development of military robotics. The text examines the US military's dependence on C4ISR systems, cyber espionage risks, critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, and the evolution of offset strategies to maintain technological superiority in an ever-changing security landscape.

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Technology and National Security: Enhancing Power Projection

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  1. Technology and National Security The Goal: Power Projection • The ability to use force around the world in pursuit of US political objectives • Firepower • Efficiency • Accuracy • Speed • coordination

  2. Technology and National Security • PGMs • RMA • Cyber war? • Robotics?

  3. Precision-Guided Munitions (PGMs) Thanh Hoa Bridge (after)

  4. 1990-91 Gulf War

  5. Revolution in Military Affairs

  6. Lifting the Fog of War? US “Information Dominance” China’s response: Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui. Unrestricted Warfare (Beijing: PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House, February 1999)

  7. Cyberspace: The New Realm of Warfare

  8. Cyber… • C4ISR • Cyberespionage • Critical Infrastructure Vulnerability • Cyberwar • Offensive • Defensive

  9. 1. C4ISR US military dependence on computers for: • Command • Control • Communications • Computers (internet, networks) • Intelligence • Surveillance • Reconnaissance

  10. C4ISR • What we want: Dominance • Basic reality: Dependence • What we fear: Vulnerability

  11. 2. Cyberespionage • Theft of material • Misinformation and alteration of data • Disruption of activities and communications • 21st century spy game • Identification and attribution

  12. 3. Critical Infrastructure Vulnerability

  13. 4. Cyberwar?

  14. Real? • War just fought computer vs. computer • Cyber as an adjunct to traditional war

  15. US Cyber Command

  16. Cyber deterrence • By punishment • By denial • Cyber capability race • Cyber-war/espionage control treaties? • US-China Agreements 2015 • “The Critical Infrastructure Non-Disruption Treaty”

  17. Robotics

  18. 1. Robots Everywhere?

  19. 2. Military Robots • Packbot

  20. 3. Robots to Do Specific Tasks UAVs • Predator Drone

  21. MARCBOT UGV

  22. Cormorant USV

  23. BCB/AAI SQ-4 RECON Nano Quad-Rotor MAV/UAS/UAV(Micro Air Vehicle/Unmanned Aircraft System/Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)

  24. 4. Robots Replacing Humans? • Autonomous Battlefield Robots?

  25. Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System (SWORDS)

  26. US Strategy • Quality over Quantity • Technological Superiority • Since WW II • Offset Strategies

  27. First Offset Strategy:Eisenhower’s New Look (1950s) The Problem The Solution

  28. Second Offset Strategy: Air Land Battle Doctrine (1970s-80s) The Problem The Solution Air-Land Battle US Army FM 100-5 (1982)

  29. Third Offset Strategy:Technology The Problem: • Anti-Access/Area-Denial strategies (A2AD) China’s DF-21D Anti-ship Ballistic Missile

  30. Third Offset: The Solution: Technology

  31. Third Offset: The Difference • Speed of technological change • Range of adversaries • Private sector drives technological change

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