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Forget about China’s missiles and stealth fighter; worry instead about ‘non-kinetic’ combat
What’s got the focus of U.S. naval intelligence? Although the first test flight of China’s new J-20 fifth-generation stealth fighter made the news last week, and PACOM commander Admiral Robert Willard recently declared that China’s DF-21D medium-range anti-ship ballistic missile has now achieved “initial operational capability,” those developments are not the most worrisome to Vice Admiral David Dorsett, the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance. What’s Dorsett’s greatest concern? It is China’s capabilities for non-kinetic combat, its potential to “develop capabilities to dominate in the electromagnetic spectrum,” which Dorsett asserts could be “game-changing.” Dorsett is preparing for warfare on non-kinetic battlefields, where failure would leave traditional kinetic warriors stuck in the barracks and with no way to fight.
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