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Most of us have heard the military’s term “full spectrum dominance.” We have heard it defined, basically, as “a military concept whereby a joint military structure achieves control over all elements of the battlespace using land, air, maritime and space based assets.” However, those in the military are rarely poetic and are not given to using metaphors, as a rule. They are very blunt, very direct. Given that, could it be the use of the word spectrum is more literal?
Dept. of Defense
The electromagnetic spectrum “is the range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation,” according to Wikipedia. I submit that it is this quite literal spectrum the Department of Defense is referring to.
The reason I believe this to be the case is because the global dominance of land, air, sea and space isn’t enough for full control of the world, which is, of course, the real objective referred to by the term “full spectrum dominance.” But, that control, in order to be absolute, must also – must especially – include the full control of the electromagnetic spectrum and all that is affected by it. More
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