Knowledge versus Network Centric Warfare

Linux meets the needs of security-critical, network-centric computing

The information age dramatically changed the modern battlefield. The U.S. military has been deploying a new network-centric framework characterized by information sharing – shared situational awareness and knowledge of the commanders’ intent throughout the force, regardless of the individual’s or unit’s precise location. Under the direction of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Office of ...

Network-Centric Warfare: Its Origin and Future

We are in the midst of a revolution in military affairs (RMA) unlike any seen since the Napoleonic Age, when France transformed warfare with the concept of levŽe en masse. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jay Johnson has called it "a fundamental shift from what we call platform-centric warfare to something we call network-centric warfare," and it will prove to be the most important RMA in the ...

Network Centric Warfare , Command , and the Nature of War

Thought Systems and Network Centric Warfare

The notion of Thought Warfare and Anti-Warfare (TWAW) has been introduced in earlier work as a way of thinking about future military conflict and its avoidance. TWAW involves the dynamic interaction of allies’ and adversaries’ Thought Systems. Current Thought Systems involve entities capable of cognition, emotion and volition typically (groups of) people interacting via networks of information ...

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