USAHEC: Theater Army and MDO: EMERGING THREATS

U.S. Army War College Research

Directed-Energy Warfare, a Revolution in Military Affairs
Siegfried Ullrich. Strategy Research Project (Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2018).
Electromagnetic Pulse : a Catastrophic Threat to the Homeland
Robert Oreskovic. Strategy Research Project (Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2011).
Impacts of Anti-Access/Area Denial Measures on Space Systems: Issues and Implications For Army and Joint Forces
Jeffrey L. Caton. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute (Carlisle Barracks, PA: March 2018).
The Third Offset, Remotely Piloted Systems, and Moral Hazards
Mark Hamilton. Strategy Research Project. (Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S Army War College, 2017.

Outside Research Sources

The following links point to information gathered by other senior service colleges, Army commands, and North American Treaty Organization (NATO).

Directed-Energy Weapons and Electronic Warfare

"Controlled Warfare: How Directed-Energy Weapons Will Enable the US Military to Fight Effectively in an Urban Environment while Minimizing Collateral Damage"
Stephen D. Davis. Small Wars & Insurgencies 26, no. 1 (February 2015): 49-71.
"Convergence of Cyberspace Operations and Electronic Warfare."
Congressional Research Service. IF11292. (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, August 13, 2019).
"Defending our Satellites: The Need for Electronic Warfare Education and Training."
E.Lincoln Bonner. Air & Space Power Journal 29, no. 6 (Nov, 2015): 74-82.
"Defense Primer: Electronic Warfare."
Congressional Research Service. IF11118. (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, September 2019).
"Defense Primer: Military Use of the Electromagnetic Spectrum."
Congressional Research Service. IF11155. (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, May 24, 2019).
"Don't Believe Your Eyes (Or Ears): The Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Fakes."
Joe Littell. War on The Rocks (Online.) Oct. 7, 2019.
"For Sea Control, First Control the Electro-Magnetic Spectrum."
Damien Dodge. Center for International Maritime Security. Sept. 11, 2018.
"High-Energy Laser Weapons: Overpromising Readiness."
Rossiter, Ash. Parameters 48, no. 4 (18, 2019): 33-44.
"Report on Navy Laser, Railgun and Gun-Launched Guided Projectiles."
Congressional Research Service. R44175.(Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, 2018).
"Russia Gives Lessons in Electronic Warfare."
Liam Collins. Association of the United States Army (Online). July 26, 2018.
"The Global Positioning System and Military Jamming: The Geographies of Electronic Warfare."
Tegg Westbrook. Journal of Strategic Security 12, no. 2 (2019): 1-16.
"U.S. Army Weapons-Related Directed Energy (DE) Programs: Background and Potential Issues for Congress."
Congressional Research Service. R45098. (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, February 12, 2018).
"Winning the Invisible Fight: The Need for Spectrum Superiority."
Alan Dayton. Defense 360, A Project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (online). Dec. 21, 2016.

Unmanned Aircraft (UAV, UAS)

Small Unmanned Aerial Systems and Tactical Air Control
Jules "Jay" Hurst. Air and Space Power Journal 33, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 19-33.
"Emerging Air-Defence Challenges."
Military Balance 2019 Bonus Material (Online), International Institute for Strategic Studies, February 2019.
"Unmanned Aerial Systems: What We've Learned through Experimentation"
by Jeffery J. Gudmens
Infantry (Online) 103, no.3 (July 2014): 11-15.
“Emerging Unmanned Threats: The Use of Commercially-Available UAVs by Armed Non-State Actors”
Larry Friese, N.R. Jenzen-Jones and Michael Smallwood, Special Report No. 2, Perth, Australia Armament Research Services (ARES) and Utrecth, Netherlands, PAX, 2016,
"Nightfall and the Cloud: Examining the Future of Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles and Remotely Piloted Aircraft"
Michael P. Kreuzer, Air & Space Power Journal 29, no. 5 (September 2015): 57-73.

Hypersonic Weapons

"Fast and Furiously Accurate."
Andrea Howard. USNI Proceedings (Online.) Vol. 145, July 2019.
"Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation: Hindering the Spread of a New Class of Weapons."
Richard H. Speier, George Nacouzi, Carrie Lee, and Richard M. Moore. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2017.
“Hypersonic Weapons: Appraising the ‘Third Offset’”
Robert Haffa and Anand Datla, American Enterprise Institute (2019).
"Hypersonic Weapons and US National Security: A 21st Century Breakthrough"
Richard Hallion, Curtis M. Bedke, and Marc V. Schanz.
Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies (2017).
"Hypersonic Weapons: Background and Issues for Congress."
Congressional Research Service. R45811. (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, Sept. 17, 2019).
"Red Sky at Morning; Naval Combat at the Dawn of Hypersonics."
Ryan Hilger. War On the Rocks. Feb. 28, 2019.
"The US Military Is Going All In On Hypersonic Weapons."
Dave Majumdar. Task and Purpose (Online). Aug.15, 2018.

Books

Directed-Energy Weapons: Promises and Prospects. by Jason D. Ellis
Call Number: Ebook
(Washington, D.C.: Center for a New American Security, 2015)
Emerging Military Technologies by Wilson W. S. Wong
Call Number: Root Hall UF500 .W65 2013
(Santa Barbara, CA : Praeger, 2013)