Transforming Coalition Warfare with Network Centric Capabilities

Abstract

The challenges of preserving peace and prosecuting war are historically and inherently complicated. In today's changing international security environment, however, the traditional challenges of yesterday are becoming even more complex. The old challenges are contributing to the emergence of new concepts and new technologies as nations and coalitions transform to confront and resolve the timeless challenges of peace and war. This paper identifies and summarizes various transformation initiatives that today's nations and coalitions are pursuing to meet the demands of tomorrow's strategic environment. The initiatives include such concepts as Network-Centric Warfare (NCW), Effects-Based Operations (EBO), Collaborative Information Environment (CIE), and many others. A central theme throughout is that the often diverse, unpredictable, and asymmetric nature of evolving threats will require conscious and concerted efforts by nations to cooperate and collaborate. New thinking and new technologies are dominating these initiatives. Coalitions and multinational partnerships will become more important than ever to successfully defeat worldwide and full-spectrum threats. Threats that range from transnational actors to ideological terrorist organizations, from renegade states to emerging nationalism, will present new and dangerous challenges to peace and stability. This new era will require new thoughts and new capabilities. The challenges are immense and the threats imminent. Therefore, coalition warfare must transform, as individual nations transform, to attempt to set the pace and control the course of future actions in peace and war. This paper is about coalitions and the evolving concepts and technologies that will contribute to their future effectiveness. Ten briefing charts summarize the presentation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA466921

Entities

People

  • John H. Admire

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Environment
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Operations
  • Information Overload
  • International Security
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Knowledge Management
  • Military Operations
  • Military Strategy
  • National Security
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Security
  • Situational Awareness
  • Thinking
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.