Electronic Warfare

Foreign Commander begins by forecasting a future attack in year 2025 towards the American navy. He describes the fighters as they will appear, " ground to dust the vaunted American Navy like the impotent clay figurines they had become." The commander then proceeds by explaining how the attacks on the navy are not going to be performed with bullets of mass destruction but in fact the attackers will be using invisible electromagnetic energy and cyber attacks that will be dropping drones down from the sky, leaving our city in a complete dark age.
Sounds pretty frightening to a civilian, considering we really cannot do much to seize the invisible attacks. Truth is this is a scene from an online war game known as MMOWGLI, Massive multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the internet. There are three elements of the US navy that are involved. Those three parts consist of the Navy Warfare Develpoment Command, the Office of Naval Research, and finally the Naval Postgraduate School. These programs invite players to help develop ideas for how the navy could begin to practice for these type of attacks. Attacks such as untraceable weapons that can possibly disable computers, satillites, aircrafts, and any forms of radar.
Right now the idea of electromagnetic cyber attacks are so critical to our national interests that we must start treating it as a warfighting domain on par with land sea air and space, said Admiral Jonath, who is chief of US Naval Operations.
Today we have the idea of EMP's Electromagnetic Pulse and Communication network. Some of these types of weapons in the US include weapons that are centralized around the same concept of a microwave but the only difference is the level of energy being used. The source of energy comes from very high powered generators. These types of weapons can stop vehicles on the spot and even take down enemy weapons.
As of right now civilians such as me and you are not capable of knowing just exactly what we ahve since all the work is practically classified. One of the unclassified weapons is known as the Radio Frequency Vehicle Stopper, this weapon is mounted on top of vehicles and is used to disable vehicles at far.
So back to MMOWGLI, this game is also classified and limited only to thos who have military or government emial account. This game is completely stratigical, there are no shoot them up scenes but instead players win points by submitting ideas on how to defend against one of these future EMP attacks, Players with the most likes and discussions win.
In all This seems like a win it all or lose it all scenario. When the time comes to face these problems in real time I hope we will have developed weapons that function best in defense for the sake of out people. Weapons programmed to strike may be less complex but will not secure victory. Victory begins with a greater defense strategy.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130404-invisible-weapons-go-into-battle