Definitions Federal Joint

Army Navy/Marine Air Force

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Definitions

• from DoD Dictionary
  electronic warfare. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic and directed energy to control the electromagnetic spectrum or to attack the enemy. Electronic warfare consists of three divisions: electronic attack, electronic protection, and electronic warfare support. Also called EW.
  • electronic attack. Division of electronic warfare involving the use of electromagnetic energy, directed energy, or antiradiation weapons to attack personnel, facilities, or equipment with the intent of degrading, neutralizing, or destroying enemy combat capability and is considered a form of fires. Also called EA.
  • electronic protection. Division of electronic warfare involving actions taken to protect personnel, facilities, and equipment from any effects of friendly or enemy use of the electromagnetic spectrum that degrade, neutralize, or destroy friendly combat capability. Also called EP.
  • electronic warfare support. Division of electronic warfare involving actions tasked by, or under direct control of, an operational commander to search for, intercept, identify, and locate or localize sources of intentional and unintentional radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition, targeting, planning and conduct of future operations. Also called ES.

Federal

• Electronic Warfare Working Group - members of Congress

Joint

• JP 3-13.1, Joint Doctrine for Electronic Warfare

• DoD Directive 3222.4, "Electronic Warfare (EW) and Command and Control Warfare (C2W) Countermeasures"

Army

• FM 2-0 (replaced 34-1), Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Operations, see also rest of 34 series
• FM 34-37, Echelons above Corps (EAC) Intelligence and Electronic Warfare (IEW) Operations
• FM 34-37, Strategic, Departmental, and Operational Intelligence and Electronic Warfare (IEW) Operations, preliminary draft posted by FAS which is "for review purposes only and does not represent approved Department of the Army doctrine."

Navy & Marine

• OPNAVINST 3430.25 Information Warfare and Command and Control Warfare
• OPNAVINST 3430.26 Implementing Instruction for Information Warfare and Command and Control Warfare (IW/C2W)

Air Force

• AFI 10-703 Electronic Warfare Integrated Reprogramming
• AFI 10-706 Electronic Warfare (EW)

• AFDD 2-5.1 Electronic Warfare Operations (alternate source)

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