ECO-TERROR
The Network Is the Battlefield: The Pentagon's aim is to meld weapons systems and people into a whole, called network-centric warfare [NCW], that's greater than the sum of its parts
Nonetheless, one way or another NCW is coming, for one simple reason: From the dawn of organized conflict, military strategists have used communications and information to beat the enemy. The ancient Greeks dispatched runners over long distances to deliver military messages. European infantries used drummers to communicate common battle orders to solidiers fighting together who didn't speak the same language.
NCW sprang from a need, dramatized in World War II and Vietnam, to use information technology to create a more lethal fighting force, as well as to to avoid casualties from friendly fire. Initial efforts follow what has become a familiar path for new technologies: Each branch of the service went its own way, creating a system that was incompatible with that of the other branches.