Electronic warfare

Cyber, electronic warfare blur tactical, strategic lines

One of today's frequently emerging adages is that the character of war is changing. The rapid pace of technologies and nascent domains of war such as cyberspace are turning what used to be tactical issues into issues of strategic importance. 

“If we don’t win the cyber/[electronic warfare] fight, then the maneuver fight may not matter because we may not get to it,” Maj. Gen. Wilson Shoffner, director of operations at the Army's Rapid Capabilities Office, said in early June, noting that the decisive fight may well be the electromagnetic spectrum as opposed to maneuver. 

Moreover, if communications are disrupted via  jammed radios — which are increasingly more susceptible to cyber and electronic attacks as demonstrated in Ukraine — then campaign plans could be significantly affected.