The Radio Spectrum as a Means of Electronic and Cyber Warfare

This represents a higher level in the development of electronic warfare technologies, using artificial intelligence and advanced processing systems to disable critical infrastructure in just seconds, as occurred in the US military aggression against Venezuela.

In recent years, the use of the radio spectrum as a medium for digital communication has become increasingly common. Currently, spread spectrum systems, frequency-hopping communications, the international use of eSIMs, the emergence of cognitive radio, the use of more robust VPNs, and highly complex end-to-end encryption algorithms are all on the rise.

However, at the same time, major powers and service providers with significant economic resources have begun to establish global dominance in long-range and strategically important communications through the use of low-Earth satellites like Starlink, remote server platforms, artificial intelligence (AI) models, and drone networks.

In this context, an entire network of companies and private investors, belonging to the American far right, are working to build a global technopolitical control system over critical infrastructure and strategic sectors of countries, specifically defense, finance, satellite communications, energy, and data.

They have appointed high-ranking officers in the U.S. military to executives of technology companies such as Meta, OpenAI, and Palantir, with the stated objective of making the U.S. Armed Forces “more agile, smarter, and more lethal.”

This represents a further step in the development of electronic warfare technologies, using artificial intelligence and advanced processing systems to disable critical infrastructure in just seconds, as occurred in the U.S. military aggression against Venezuela on January 3, where they presumably disabled the Venezuelan Armed Forces' radars, communications networks, and electrical systems.

Article 16, section m) of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba states that our country “defends the cooperation of all States and the democratization of cyberspace, and condemns its use and that of the radio spectrum for purposes contrary to the foregoing, including subversion and the destabilization of sovereign nations.” However, as we have mentioned, its use has increased to destabilize governments, spread fake news, and in direct military confrontation.

This underscores the importance of strengthening the capabilities of the Global South community to manage, monitor, control, and neutralize the radio spectrum, with a comprehensive security approach at all levels, and to develop more precise detection systems and faster response times to guarantee the defense and national security of States.