Cebrowski said the Defense Department will increasingly equip smaller forces with radios and a mix of lethal and nonlethal, active and passive weapons, based on techniques learned from public safety and police departments.
The Stryker Brigade program is "doing very well," he said—not so much because of the vehicles as because of the networked structure. "The soldiers offload their packs and arrive more ready to fight, physically and mentally," he said.
Because intelligence is being collected faster and in huge quantities, he said, "We need to automate the triage and automate the analysis. We'll all become analysts" and remedy the intelligence shortfall found by the 9/11 Commission.
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