Scarborough\'s Network Centric
Warfare Meets the Laws of the Navy
Scarborough intends to persuade the reader that “Network-Centric Warfare (NCW)
Or, in other words, the use of information technology in the Navy gives the appearance
that a technological revolution and its cyberspace tools will improve friendly awareness
on the battlefield.
The opening sentence of the article grabs your attention with a calculated negative
tone inferring that the author’s opinion is one that will attempt to disprove the validity
and the ability of the Navy and its leaders to effectively adopt NCW.
The Commander contends the issues are: 1) networking forces, 2) information
technology and 3) all the high tech devices providing information to all ranks. NCW will
force a major shift in leadership abilities and the traditional military “do as you are told
culture” will no longer be effective in future Naval operations. This further......
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