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| 2004-11-29 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 The author doesn't seem to quite appreciate the idea of netcentric warfare. It's easy for ideas to devolve into buzzwords, to be sure - especially far-ranging ideas. As he obliquely admits, netcentric infrastructure and -- equally important -- tactics and doctrine have been incredibly powerful in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the focus on shared and very timely information flows at all levels of command goes way beyond getting the services to work together more closely. It means getting inside the enemy's Observe / Orient / Decide / Act cycle - i.e., doing those things before the enemy can either do them or react to your last actions. What does this have to do with defeating terrorism? Not much, perhaps -- unless the same approach is taken to the wider intel community. In which case it probably matters whose vision for intel reform we adopt ..... The problem that will emerge is how to share info without drowning people - especially people at the lower levels of the organization - in it. That's an issue a lot of people are working on right now. |
| Posted by: rkb 2004-11-29 9:52:33 AM |