INFORMATION AGE AIRPOWER

摘要

Any future conflict between the US and a near-peer adversary will increasingly turn on the ability to collect, disseminate, and exploit information faster than the opponent, senior USAF leaders and others declared at a recent forum in California cosponsored by the Air Force Association's Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. Air Combat Command boss Gen. Herbert J. "Hawk" Carlisle said in a speech that during Operation Allied Force over Serbia in 1999, Serbian air defense artillery shot down an F-117 stealth fighter aircraft with a 1960s-model SA-3 missile. Using innovative tactics, basic communications, and even human spotters watching strikes take off from Aviano AB, Italy, the Serbs were able to take down one of US AF's top-of-the-line assets at the time, in the opening days of the campaign.