Preserving Battlefield Adaptability in a Digitizing Army.

Abstract

Especially after periods of substantive technological and doctrinal change, all armies find themselves confronted with the need to adapt the fighting techniques and equipment they developed in peacetime to the realities they face when they encounter a live enemy. The German Army's revamping of their offensive methods during WWI and the U.S. Army's adjustment of its tank destroyer tactics during WWII are two obvious examples. Without taking these lessons into account within the context of what is known from the civilian community about evolving complex software-intensive systems, the U.S. Army could inadvertently field a needlessly brittle' digital system of systems that could fail to adapt to the reality and requirements of future battlefields.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 18, 1999
Accession Number
ADA364578

Entities

People

  • Clark K. Ray

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Command Control Communications And Computer Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • First World War
  • Information Systems
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Open Source Software
  • Operating Systems
  • Second World War
  • Software Development
  • Students
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Systems Analysis and Design