Electronic Warfare in the Information Age

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Summary: Book Description
Review: Here's an advanced practitioner's guide to the latest concepts and threats associated with modern electronic warfare (EW). This new book identifies and explains the newest radar and communications threats, and provides EW and radar engineers, managers, and technical professionals with practical, "how-to" information on designing and implementing ECM and ECCM systems.

Written by a world-renowned expert in radar and electronic warfare, the book helps you develop state-of-the-art ESM systems designed specifically to exploit the vulnerabilities of modern radar. It also identifies and evaluates the latest ESM receiving equipment, and outlines advanced ECM methods, including monopulse deception, coherent radar jamming, and high-ERP generation. Other well-structured sections cover modern ECCM countermeasure techniques, the impact of new stealth technology on ESM and ECM requirements, jammer upgrading procedures, and much more.

Contents: EW -- Threats, Requirements, and Principles. Modern ECM Systems -- Architectures, Types, and Technologies. Advanced Threat Radars and Missile Systems. ECM Receiving and Process System Design. ECM Applications -- System Design and Technique Solution. Advanced ECM Technology. Radar ECCM.

Software Included! More than 20 MATLAB® programs help you solve the real-world EW design problems presented at the end of each chapter. One 3.5" IBM PC-compatible diskette.

D. Curtis Schleher is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. A Fellow of the IEEE, he is the author of Introduction to Electronic Warfare and MTI and Pulsed Doppler Radar, both published by Artech House. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University.

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Summary: electronic warfare re-tuned on information warfare principle
Review: Tactical data links are the key elements for the evolution of EW systems performances inside a battlefield. "Dynamic libraries" of passive and active EW systems make those systems, "adaptive" to the threat environment, the variations of which run according to the INFORMATION playing in "real time".

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Summary: electronic warfare re-tuned on information warfare principle
Review: Tactical data links are the key elements for the evolution of EW systems performances inside a battlefield. "Dynamic libraries" of passive and active EW systems make those systems, "adaptive" to the threat environment, the variations of which run according to the INFORMATION playing in "real time".

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Summary: Excellent, but compressed
Review: This book brings the reader up to date on almost every aspect of modern Electronic Warfare, and is well worth reading.

But I must add two caveats. First, Schleher covers so much ground in one volume that a great deal of background material is necessarily left out. The reader needs to be reasonably familiar with military electronics and the relevant aspects of physics to understand a lot of the material presented here. Indeed,in a few places, such as the discussion in Section 8.1.1 of high-power microwave weapons, so much has been left out that I doubt whether anybody who lacks specialized knowledge of that particular topic can infer the implications of what Schleher says.

My second caveat is that, perhaps because of space limitations, the book contains essentially no material relating the great mass of technical information it provides to operational doctrine and the tactical implications of operational doctrine. Given that it's impossible to put all of the very latest-and-greatest technical innovations into every weapon and every platform (because it would cost too much, add too much weight, take up too much space, and make maintenance inordinately difficult) the choice of what to use where has to be made on the basis of how the platform or weapon is to be used, and that can only be determined by considering operational doctrine. Many engineers, and even some military personnel, tend to overlook this, so in a book like Schleher's it would be invaluable to have this relationship discussed. But it isn't.

However, I found the book fascinating and informative.

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Summary: A good book to understand modern electronic battlefield
Review: This is a good place to expanded your knowledge on the Electronic warfare side of a battle. The ins and outs of using Radio, Radar, TV to fight a modern 21st centruy battle. This book cover subjects such as how Command and Control works to how people using Signal intelligence(Sigint) and Electronic Intelligence (Elint) to find thier opponets Headquarters. As before this is a good book to expand your knowledge. Maybe not start, but at least to expand any knowledge you have