The Generations of Command and Control Warfare (as told by the prophet)
In the beginning, there was Hand-to-Hand Combat. And the sons of Hand-to-Hand
Combat were Rock, Spear, and Sword Warfare. And it was good. And the morning
and the evening were called the First Wave, or Agrarian Warfare.
Sword Warfare begat Mechanized Combat. And the sons of Mechanized Combat were
Combined Arms and Chemical Warfare and Radio Counter Measures. And Radio Counter
Measures begat Electronic Combat. And the sons of Electronic Combat were Electronic
Warfare; Command, Control and Communications Counter Measures and Suppression
of Enemy Air Defenses. Now the sons of Electronic Warfare were Counter Measures,
Counter-Counter Measures and Support Measures. And it was good. And the morning
and evening were called the Second Wave, or Industrial Warfare.
On the third day, all hell broke loose. Electronic Combat went into the tent
of Technology and knew her. But Command, Control and Communications Counter
Measures also lusted after Technology and went into her tent and knew her also.
And it was very good. And so it was that her days were accomplished that she
should deliver her child, and she wrapped him in strange words and laid him
in a paradigm. And they called him Command and Control Warfare, for they knew
not who his father was, Electronic Combat or Command, Control and Communications
Countermeasures.
And wise men came from the Joint Staff bearing gifts. And they gave him OPSEC,
PSYOPS, Deception, Electronic Warfare and Destruction. And Electronic Warfare
kicked out all his sons and begat new sons. And the new sons of Electronic Warfare
were Electronic Attack, Protect, and Support.
And the morning and evening were called the Third Wave, or Information Warfare.
Now let me tell you as concerns those events that are yet to come. Fire will
fall from heaven and consume the house of Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses.
And the family of Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses will scatter before the
fire, and gather to the tribes of Destruction and Electronic Attack. And they
will lose their name for all generations.
Verily, I say unto thee, all now be renamed under the umbrella term Information
Operations, and do spread this gospel of warfare without killing. And lo, it
is politically correct.