Accession Number:

AD1079695

Title:

21st Century Anti-Scouting for Carrier Strike Groups - Countering Detection in the Anti-Access/Area Denial Environment

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Final Report]

Corporate Author:

NAVAL WAR COLLEGE NEWPORT RI

Personal Author(s):

• Hettinger, Michael P. Jr

Report Date:

2019-05-07

Pagination or Media Count:

27

Abstract:

As peernear-peer adversaries continue rapid growth in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ISR capabilities, long-range strike, and development of maritime platforms, the U.S. faces great challenges in maintaining maritime superiority. Operational commanders must perfect and employ creative techniques to prevent being detected, located, and targeted by the multiple threats posed by Chinas anti-accessarea denial A2AD capabilities. The author asserts that success for the U.S. Navy and the viability of a first strike capability from a carrier strike group CSG in the Western Pacific requires a significant paradigm shift in operational thinking. This paper considers the effectiveness of the current CSG and whether anti-scouting is a realistic concept today. Objective analysis will conclude that for a carrier strike group to attack effectively first in todays threat environment, it requires more than emissions control and dispersal it must be able to counter-detect in multiple warfighting domains simultaneously.

Descriptors:

• warfare
• area denial
• intelligence collection
• military operations
• ballistic missiles
• naval warfare
• navies (foreign)
• navy
• operations security
• signals intelligence
• first strike capability
• doctrine
• electromagnetic spectra
• environment
• geographic regions
• information operations
• platforms
• prompt global strike
• reconnaissance
• surveillance

Subject Categories:

• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]