Decentralized Command and Control of High-Tech Forces- Aligning Practice with Doctrine at the Operational Level

摘要

Network centric warfare (NCW), through information superiority and shared awareness among networked forces, promised to one day provide 'the ability to make better decisions faster and to implement them more quickly than any opponent can react'. It may be distant future, but the U.S. is introducing the enabling information and communications technologies of NCW into its forces today.