Electronic warfare receiving more senior level attention within the Army
The Army released an electromagnetic warfare strategy in March and is working on an implementation plan.
By
Mark Pomerleau
August 21, 2025
U.S. Soldiers assigned to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division set up a command post with the M1301 Infantry Squad Vehicle during exercise Spectrum Blitz 25 at the Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, April 11, 2025. Spectrum Blitz 25 is an exercise that provides an opportunity to train Electronic Warfare Teams in Electronic Warfare Training Strategies at the platoon level. (U.S. Army photos by Sgt. Collin Mackall)
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Electronic warfare is now getting more senior level recognition within the Army.
“The [chief of staff of the Army] in one of his recent briefs actually touched on the fact that electromagnetic warfare is a core competency,” Col. Leslie Gorman, Army capability manager for electromagnetic warfare, said during a presentation Tuesday at the TechNet Augusta conference. “The bottom line is EW is a cross-cutting function that we are observing actively every day, across every warfighting function.”
Other officials across the service have noted that the Army is placing more emphasis on the significance of electromagnetic warfare in modern conflict.
“I think it’s been pretty well known that the Army has, after facing 20 years of GWOT, or global war on terror, that we needed to retool our focus, as the chief has been doing with several of his initiatives, most recently, the Army Transformation Initiative,” Maj. Gen. Jake Kwon, director of the Department of the Army’s Management Office for Strategic Operations, said in an interview Aug. 14. “The direction that we were headed where we had these long lead-time programs of record, we had an electronic warfare enterprise that had been shaped by the global war on terror and the counterinsurgency, and that was incompatible for what we’re going to face in the future with large-scale combat operations.”
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