Never underestimate the zeal of the newly converted. The U.S. and Western Europe may have embraced the idea of net-centric warfare, in which information systems and network links become more important than individual weapons and platforms, but we hardly have a monopoly on the concept. Other nations, principally the richer ones in the Asia-Pacific region, are playing catch-up with a vengeance. Some even have the potential to leave us in the dust.Tuesday 29 May 2007
Australia’s net-centric vision
Never underestimate the zeal of the newly converted. The U.S. and Western Europe may have embraced the idea of net-centric warfare, in which information systems and network links become more important than individual weapons and platforms, but we hardly have a monopoly on the concept. Other nations, principally the richer ones in the Asia-Pacific region, are playing catch-up with a vengeance. Some even have the potential to leave us in the dust.
