Who Owns the Spectrum? Dr. Thomas Withington on the EMSO Mission Gap

Electromagnetic spectrum operations touch nearly every part of modern warfare, yet the mission still has no clear owner.
For today’s conversation, Ken Miller sits down withArmada International (armadainternational.com/author/thomaswithington) editor and military historian Dr. Thomas Withington (linkedin.com/in/thomas-withington-4974593) to break down why EMSO remains so hard to organize and prioritize. Together, they discuss whether a dedicated EMSO authority could coordinate the services and cut duplicate procurement, then they walk through a hypothetical GPS-jamming crisis in the Baltic to ask who would lead the military and civilian response if critical infrastructure were hit. They also make the case for distributed, affordable land EW systems, drawing on Ukraine’s real-world testing experience, and ask whether NATO needs an EW version of Red Flag.
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