Waging Information Warfare for Asymmetric Advantage: Increasing Multi-Domain Speed, Survivability, and Lethality in the Indo-Pacific

UNITED STATES

04.01.2022

Audio by Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell 

Air University Public Affairs Multimedia

This article presents the Converged Effects Cells (CEC) theoretical model to organize and employ information warfare (IW) capabilities in the Indo-Pacific necessary for the success of Agile Combat Employment (ACE) and Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JAD C2)·· This construct operationalizes the ideas of Lieutenant General Timothy Haugh and Brigadier General George Reynolds to achieve convergence against strategic power competitors and overcome current limitations in waging IW in modern, contested environments. The CEC construct is based off the global exploitation model deployed in early 2016 by elements of United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). It also incorporates the operational realities of the cryptologic enterprise and offensive cyber-operations (OCO) in US Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM). Inherent to this model is the (1) Central Security Service·s revitalization (i.e., P2/P3 integration), (2) 16 Air Force·s reorganizing organic capabilities, (3) joint force, interagency (IA), intelligence community (IC), and allied partner integration, (4) persistent operations across the entire competition continuum, and (5) over-the-horizon targeting and fires. This model creates a dynamic, scalable capability that blurs the line between kinetic and nonkinetic operations while simultaneously adding flexibility, resilience, and lethality to the current vulnerable and static IW architecture in the Indo-Pacific.

• Date Taken: 04.01.2022
• Date Posted: 04.08.2022 12:00
• Category: Newscasts
• Audio ID: 68918
• Filename: 2204/DOD_108905981.mp3
• Length: 00:45:26
• Artist: Major Brandon Spader, United States Air Force
• Album: Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs
• Year: Apri
• Genre: audio article
• Location: US