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

摘要

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.