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• 13 May 11
  

  Aleksandar-Ivan Tatić

  technology war iraq socialnetworking

• 20 Oct 10
  

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  • Navy captain Arthur Cebrowski met John Garstka, a captain in the Air Force
  • In an article for the January 1998 issue of the naval journal Proceedings, "Network-Centric Warfare: Its Origin and Future," they not only named the philosophy but laid out a new direction for how the US would think about war.
  • Their model was Wal-Mart.
  • Now, fundamental changes are affecting the very character of war."
  • And yet, here we are. The American military is still mired in Iraq. It's still stuck in Afghanistan, battling a resurgent Taliban. Rumsfeld has been forced out of the Pentagon. Dan Halutz, the Israeli Defense Forces chief of general staff and net-centric advocate who led the largely unsuccessful war in Lebanon in 2006, has been fired, too. In the past six years, the world's most technologically sophisticated militaries have gone up against three seemingly primitive foes — and haven't won once.
  • But network-centric warfare, with its emphasis on fewer, faster-moving troops, turned out to be just about the last thing the US military needed when it came time to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan. A small, wired force leaves generals with too few nodes on the military network to secure the peace. There aren't enough troops to go out and find informants, build barricades, rebuild a sewage treatment plant, and patrol a marketplace.

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• 01 Mar 10
  

  Eng Yeow Kwek
• 28 Feb 10
  

  Roberto Pla

  How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social. Articulo en Wired (2007)

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• 06 Apr 08
  

  barrysaunders

  network-science

• 29 Jan 08
  

  josbry

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• 19 Dec 07
  

  TransTracker
• 11 Dec 07
  

  Owen Mathews

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  Antoine Bertier

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• 10 Dec 07
  

  Adriana Lukas

  the magic of networks works outside facebook, y'know

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• 07 Dec 07
  

  Ruby Sinreich

  network-centric strategy iraq for:networks imported101217

• 06 Dec 07
  

  the Critical Networks Are Social — Not Electronic

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• 03 Dec 07
  

  Dhul Qarnayn

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  William Merrin

  socialnetworking war

• 02 Dec 07
  

  aeron999

  toread Technology military war internet strategy Iraq wired

• 01 Dec 07
  

  Michel Bauwens

  "If I know where the enemy is, I can kill it. My problem is I can't connect with the local population." How could he? For far too many units, the war had been turned into a telecommute.

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  Mark Pesce

  Hyperempowerment against hyperempowerment

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• 30 Nov 07
  

  osamuelsson

  It was a geek vision to change the nature of how war is waged: Use information technologies to improve military strategy. Networked computers could take data from battlefield sensors, identify targets and cut down the number of troops in harm

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• 29 Nov 07
  

  Chrys R

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  nacarino

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• 28 Nov 07
  

  Martin Kelley

  "Their model was Wal-Mart. Here was a sprawling, bureaucratic monster of an organization... If that company could wire everyone together and become more efficient, then US forces could, too. 'Nations make war the same way they make wealth'."

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  oriolmari

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  Somar Ramos

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  Chris Rasmussen

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