ELECTRONIC WARFARE IN INFORMATION AGE

In this paper the importance of electronic warfare is presented taking into consideration the information age environment. In order to understand the electronic warfare this in information age, first we should understand what information age is and how the electromagnetic spectrum is used today. The Information age has changed every aspect of our life. For the first time in history we can create, access and store a high amount of information and all this happen during our life span. How has the military field been affected by all these changes? The military answer to the information age was the network centric warfare (NCW). As we can see, this concept NCW is affecting every aspect of the military field creating the evolution path from platform-centric to network-centric forces. When all military tools are physically limited in order to achieve military superiority we should exploit the new domain the information domain. Without this transformation it is not possible to achieve victory。