Network Enabled Operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Initial Impressions Issue Paper Volume 06-05, March 2005

Abstract

The first Gulf War was conducted with legacy systems straddling the industrial and emergent information age. The major combat operations phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) on the other hand, put into practice information age constructs and theory for the first time in warfare and was an impressive success in its speed and lethality. The impact of that network enabled campaign (often referred to as Network Centric Warfare) is the topic of a study conducted by the Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College and commissioned by the Office of Force Transformation, U.S. Department of Defense. The study will be completed by the fall of 2005, but first drafts of the study hint at valuable operational and strategic insights.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA432457

Entities

People

  • Dennis Murphy

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Case Studies
  • Combat Operations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Iraqi-War
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Situational Awareness
  • United States
  • Voice Communications
  • War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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