Gleaning lessons learned from Russian military activities in Ukraine and Syria, the US Army's top civilian is calling for the service to 'rebuild' its Electronic Warfare (EW) capabilities.
Sitting down with reporters during an 29 August breakfast, Army Secretary Mark Esper said the service 'shed' its EW capabilities during the nearly two decades of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
'In the late 80s and 90s, we had robust electronic warfare capabilities, I think those are capabilities that we shed during the days of Afghanistan and Iraq because we needed a different force mix on the field of battle,' Esper