From: redteam@all.net Reply-to: redteam@all.net Organization: Red Team Mailing List Subject: RedTeam Mailing List 1998-11-07 
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From: redcell2@usa.net
Date:  6 Nov 98 18:04:43 MST
Subject: AWE Red Team

You know what?

The authors of the digitized force STILL won't let an ordinary Electronic
Warfare Jamming Platoon conduct ACTIVE INTERFERENCE, that is electronic
countermeasures, against the EXFOR.

I believe, that they are building Force XXI digitization backwards.  You don't
build a network to meet your data throughput requirements and then see how
well you can protect it against countermeasures.  You build an architecture
from the inside out, with resistance against countermeasures and hacking as an
integral part of the system's design.  

Let's assume the Force XXI efforts produce a wonderfully capable digital
network that can meet the very large data transmission and security
requirements of Force XXI.  How can anyone know that this architecture will
still possess these same characteristics after electronic countermeasures are
added later?  

So far, this "non-interference" analytical effort still seems to deny the
reality that there are commercially available countermeasures systems,
especially from the cash-hungry former Warsaw Pact, that can deliver
absolutely smashing power against digital communications networks.  I'd be
happy to have a dozen or so of the latest Czech or Russian jamming systems and
take on the Force XXI digital communications networks. (Assuming the Rules of
Engagement for the AWE didn't allow the EXFOR to kill the jammers in the first
30 seconds of their operation.) The result of a realistic, real world
countermeasures engagement would be denial of the communications required to
support the digital Force XXI.  If the advocates of Force XXI dispute this,
let them demonstrate even once in a real free play exercise that their
digitized force will survive jamming.

Continued denial of the existing capability of widely available
countermeasures systems does not lend the Army's AWE's any credibility. In
fact, until I see a real, open AWE, with two fully empowered forces, one
OPFOR, one EXFOR, using ALL their available resources, including jamming,
hacking and intrusion, I won't believe that the digitized force can survive in
an increasingly hostile and sophisticated digital world.

It's still a preordained success, a digital dog and pony show, untill all the
gloves are off and Force XXI can survive whatever a real enemy can throw at
us.  If we think any of our opponents will give us any quarter, we should
think again.

Best Regards,

Hugh Blanchard
MAJ, MI (Retired)
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