The Gulf War and, to a lesser degree, the Kosovo air campaign demonstrated that advanced technologies have brought very significant changes to how war is waged. Intelligence sensors, precision navigation data and communications gave commanders unprecedented situational awareness. This situational awareness, coupled with precision-guided weapons, proved devastating.
The major significance of these advanced technologies is not that they incrementally increase the capabilities of existing forces but, rather, that they radically shift the sources of military effectiveness. The effectiveness of massed forces and firepower yields to information that permits less mass, yet more effectiveness.
Since the Gulf War,we have seen that forces equipped
The major significance of these advanced technologies is not that they incrementally increase the capabilities of existing forces but, rather, that they radically shift the sources of military effectiveness. The effectiveness of massed forces and firepower yields to information that permits less mass, yet more effectiveness.
Since the Gulf War,we have seen that forces equipped