WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. military is good at conventional strike warfare but needs to do more in terms of intelligence and surveillance, a Navy commander said.
U.S. Navy Vice Adm. David Dorsett said waging a war of information requires a commander to better employ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to dominate that spectrum of combat.
"We're great at strike warfare -- dropping bombs," he was quoted by the U.S. Defense Department as saying. "It's now time for the Navy, and frankly the U.S. joint forces, to step up and start dealing with information in a much more sophisticated manner than they have in the past".
Dorsett said the Navy has made great strides in reorganizing its intelligence and technology roles, but it hasn't done much in the way of analyzing intelligence collected in the field.
Yet the military needs to strike a balance, he said, between combat and intelligence capabilities.
"We don't want to optimize it for (signals intelligence) at the expense of (asymmetric warfare)," he said.
Navy Adm. Gary Roughead, the chief of naval operations, said in 2009 that the Navy was combining its resources for information dominance. UPI
