Network Centric Warfare - Death or Renaissance of the Operational Art and the Operational Level of War

Abstract

Network Centric Warfare is clearly the next great revolution in warfare but it is certainly not going to be the death of the operational level of war. NCW will change our military and has already begun to reduce levels of command at the tactical level. But when NCW is implemented fully and the 3 domains of physical, information and cognitive are taken into account in that implementation it is clear that the operational level of war is not disappearing but becoming increasingly important. The operational commander of the future will practice the operational arts in the form that has been touted by Clauzewitz and Sun Tzu and technology will once again become a tool rather than an answer.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 17, 2005
Accession Number
ADA463423

Entities

People

  • Tim L. Day

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Operations
  • Knowledge Management
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Strategy
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Organizational Structure
  • Situational Awareness
  • Teamwork
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.