Net Centric Warfare and Emergence
Sonny and Wiggins make the argument that emergence will take care of NCW, but the downside is that takes too long.
NCW does not need “proponents”. It just comes naturally.
As the first generation of digital natives begins to work its way though the ranks of the military, these ideas of information sharing will cease to be policies and become assumptions. Do you think that people who grew up blogging, IMing and googling are going to hit the DoD and all of a sudden accept stovepiped systems? Hell no! Digital natives don’t name this stuff, they do it.
Which is true. But this is demonstrative of the fact that the innovation cycle of the the DoD is tremendously long. By the time NCW becomes SOP we will be facing new threats who have a handle on how to exploit it. This graphic shows how NCW is adopted by the state structure –
-Shlok
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