The United States military is adapting itself to fight warfare in the Information Age, preparing forces that use information superiority as a key weapon. Advocates of this communication-based and information-based form of warfare use the term...
Self-synchronization is an idea that comes directly from Network-Centric Warfare but its foundations lie in complexity theory and the ideas of self-organization and emergent behavior. In order to understand self-synchronization the basics of...
The United States military remains the dominant post-modern state combatant. Military actions in Kosovo, Bosnia, and the Desert Storm victory validated the theory that information-based technologies are decisive factors in modern military...
The Australian Army has commenced a process of transformation to meet the demands of the increasingly complex operational environment in which it is currently operating, and will continue to operate in the foreseeable future. The Australian...
The Army is in the midst of a significant transformation into the Future Force. The purpose of this transformation is to provide the right kind of forces for the needs of the future. By the year 2010, the current Army organizational structure...
The Objective Force Unit of Action operates in a significantly different command environment. It is called “execution-centric command” and it relies on information superiority. The commander uses superior situational understanding and the...
This study examines three primary questions: (1) What is the definition of network-centric warfare? (2) Are the military services implementing the network-centric warfare concept? and (3) Is the network-centric warfare concept a new theory of...
"Nodes and Codes" explores the reality of cyber warfare through the story of Stuxnet, a string of weaponized code that reached through a domain previously associated with information operations to bring about the physical, and potentially lethal,...
One of the greatest impediments to the hardening and networking of the Australian Army has been entrenched Corps-based tribalism. The focus on Corps superiority has led to a mind-set that does not readily accept the necessity for a combined arms...
History shows that the U.S. Army can fight and defeat its opponents using centralized command concepts, but the challenges of the contemporary operating environment place a premium on the abilities of subordinate commanders to act independently and...
This monograph examines the problem of decoupling between the commander and joint battle staff of a joint task force, and its antidote, networking. Effective networking between the commander and staff enables both the commander and joint staff to...
Innovations in command and control procedures for joint air operations have been unable to keep pace with changes in technology and military requirements. Current U.S. operational capabilities often fail to meet the need to task, re-task, and...
The Army's fielding of military intelligence companies to the modular brigade combat teams (BCTs) as part of the Army Transformation has created a loss of intelligence capability for the modular division commander. Furthermore, the global design of...
The defense and intelligence community initiatives to create persistent surveillance capabilities and enable access to the resultant continuous data streams will create significant change in the joint force and partners operating across the domains...
US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan caused the U.S. Government to reassess its interagency capabilities. In the wake of these conflicts, Congress held hearings in order to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the interagency process...
US and German security strategies portray future warfare as coalition warfare. Thus, successful military operations depend on assured interoperability of coalition forces. This paper asks for the state of interoperability between German Forces in...
The bifurcation of global threats since the collapse of the bipolar paradigm, as well as technological proliferation has heightened uncertainty in US Army operations. This uncertainty has manifested in adversaries with broader capabilities to...
This monograph sought to determine if Army transformation forces could integrate leadership and technology to achieve information superiority during maneuver in the land dimension. Leadership and technology could provide a synergy of application...
Research Question: how will U.S. national security policy be affected by terrorist exploitation of the Internet and related information technologies? Information operations are nothing new; they have been used in military operations throughout the...
The military application of the network centric concept is framed by Network Centric Warfare (NCW) which is an emerging operational concept based on the stated vision of future warfare in Joint Vision 2020. In the Information Age, does Network...