Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)

摘要

Delegates from Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, UK and US convened at the Airborne ISR and C2 Battle Management conference on 11-12 March to highlight the greatest challenges for NATO in the face of both regular and irregular threats. According to one senior NATO representative, the emergence of such conventional and unconventional threats was nothing new but rather the method in which they were employed and integrated. The source highlighted Islamic State (IS) and Russia as two examples of such a strategy, which is seeing the proliferation of hybrid warfare worldwide. Delegates referred to NATO's Eastern and Southern flanks in relation to these current threats with opponents further developing intelligence-driven operations. Sources described difficulties in monitoring mobile targets in Ukraine with US Northern Command (NORCOM) reverting back to a Cold War-style "two-minute decision" cycle to counter any ballistic missile threat.