Task Force Stryker network-centric operations in Afghanistan /
This case study examines the real-world application of the network-centric warfare concept during combat operations in Afghanistan. Network-centric warfare broadly describes the combination of strategies, emerging tactics, techniques, and procedures, and organizations that a fully or even partially...
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University,
2011.
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| Series: | Defense & technology papers ;
no. 84. |
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| Online Access: | https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo39204 |
| Summary: | This case study examines the real-world application of the network-centric warfare concept during combat operations in Afghanistan. Network-centric warfare broadly describes the combination of strategies, emerging tactics, techniques, and procedures, and organizations that a fully or even partially networked force can employ to create a decisive Warfighting advantage. A great deal has been made of the asymmetric advantage of terrorists, insurgents, and guerrillas. In a networked environment with properly trained leaders, soldiers, and units, such advantages are fictional. Network-centric organizations are supposed to increase their combat power by doing a better job of synchronizing events and their consequences; achieving greater speed of command; and increasing lethality, survivability, and responsiveness of the formation. These capabilities can be a reality in today's operating environment. The main problem with network-centric operations is that there remains a great deal of skepticism among counterinsurgency pundits and others about the concept and the technology necessary to operate in such a fully networked environment. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 8, 2011). Series from web site. "October 2011." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (iii, 17 pages) : color illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |