Decentralized Command and Control of High-Tech Forces- Aligning Practice with Doctrine at the Operational Level

Abstract

Network centric warfare (NCW), through information superiority and shared awareness among networked forces, promised to one day provide "the ability to make better decisions faster and to implement them more quickly than any opponent can react". It may be distant future, but the U.S. is introducing the enabling information and communications technologies of NCW into its forces today.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 09, 2004
Accession Number
ADA422796

Entities

People

  • George F. Franz

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Civil War
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Commerce
  • Computers
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Control Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Iraqi-War
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • New York
  • War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Economics
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control