AOC Australasia 2014

AOC Australia and Region II Perspectives: Asia, Pacific and

Indian Sub-Continent Squadron Leader

Fernando C González MscEW

President

Australian Chapter

Association of Old Crows

AOC AustraliaAustralian Chapter Policy and Practice-Professional Engagement- Govt / Academia / Industry / Military-Domain Engagement- EW / IO / Cyber-Geographic Engagement- Australia (states)- Global (Sing, KL, Bang, Pac, US, UK)- Cyberspace (Webinar)- Unlocking the Mysteries of Radar

AOC Australasia 2014

AOC Australasia 2014

Region II PerspectivesAsia, Pacific, Indian Sub-Continent-Turning point – JFK Moment- Book of Qi, Wang Jingze - Winning Stratagem #4- Wait at leisure while the enemy labours- Choose the time and place

AOC Australasia 2014

Region II Perspectives-New battlefronts- Iraq / Afghanistan, etc- Land, Sea, Air- EW, IO, Cyber

AOC Australasia 2014

Region II Perspectives-100 years – WW1

- 40 years of peace (uncontested dominant power)- Economic prosperity through industrialisation- Aspirations of shift in power to new states- Brinkmanship gone too far (overconfidence)- Unwanted conflict (technology faster than diplomacy)- New economic and political balance with or without war

AOC Australasia 2014

Region II Perspectives- 1914: Speed and Agility – mechanisation- 2014: How fast and agile are our effects now?

AOC Australasia 2014

Region II Perspectives- AOC Singapore 2011, LWC 2012, AOC Kuala Lumpur 2012

- Afghanistan Battlespace (Air ISR, EW, CIED ECM)

AOC Australasia 2014

Region II Perspectives- AOC Kuala Lumpur 2014- Electronic Surveillance in the Asia Pacific Region- Jingze: Take the fight where? Choose the time and place how?

- Distance / timeframes: heavy reliance on surveillance- Speed and agility: subsonic/supersonic/hypersonic

AOC Australasia 2014

Region II Perspectives- AOC Kuala Lumpur 2014- Electronic Surveillance in the Aisa Pacific Region

- Greater than hypersonic by a factor of 1,000,000- Light speed effects

- EMS- Cyber

AOC Australasia 2014

Region II Perspectives- AOC Kuala Lumpur 2014- Electronic Surveillance in the Aisa Pacific Region

- Lessons learnt from AFG- Asymmetry: Legacy v COTS / Improvised- Black Art / Magic syndrome: Knowledge is power!- Complacency: we forget the silent war- Leverage COTS for speed and cost benefits- Reinvest, re-equip, retrain- Educate – equip the best platform – the brain!

AOC Australasia 2014

Region II Perspectives- AOC deals in the new great innovation

- EW, IO, Cyber = 300M m/s warfare

- Responsibility to

- Understand this new century of ‘mechanisation’

- Ensure our governments understand

- Engage the region through its rebalancing

- Accommodate a new positioning of economies peacefully

- Recognise the true enemies: fear and instability

AOC Australasia 2014

AOC Australia and Region II Perspectives: Asia, Pacific and

Indian Sub-Continent Squadron Leader

Fernando C González MscEW

President

Australian Chapter

Association of Old Crows