Re: [iwar] News Item and a Question/See C4

From: e.r. (fastflyer28@yahoo.com)
Date: 2001-08-22 00:12:26

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It will not change the face of warfare as we know it, but IWAR offers
potential users the chance to draw a hot battle to a faster close. By
damaging your adversaries ability to effectively use his C4 (command,
control, comms and computers) channels, it is far harder to fight a
much better informed military.
--- Tony Bartoletti <azb@llnl.gov> wrote:
> At 08:43 AM 8/17/01 +0500, Ozair wrote:
> >News Item
> ><snip>
> >By BBC Defence Correspondent Jonathan Marcus
> >Now that the Bush Administration has belatedly given its approval
> for
> >the Pentagon to order the first batch of advanced F-22 warplanes
> both
> >the US Air Force and the aircraft's manufacturers - Lockheed Martin
> -
> >will be relieved.
> >
> >Many feared that the F-22 could become the first high-profile victim
> of
> >Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon reforms.
> >
> >Billed as a far-reaching attempt to re-shape the US military for the
> >conflicts of the 21st century, the Rumsfeld reform process has run
> into
> >the sand.
> >
> >It has prompted strong opposition from both Congress and senior
> serving
> >officers. Reform there still will be, but there are growing doubts
> about
> >its scale and scope.
> >
> >
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1495000/1495340.s
> >tm
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >Question
> >How would this impact the ability to move towards the Information
> >Warfare arena, would wars still be largely conventional?
> 
> 
> Ozair,
> 
> You are kidding, right?
> 
> No matter how "mature" info warfare may become, I cannot imagine that
> the 
> bullet and bomb manufacturers will have to worry about sales. 
> Information 
> operations will be only another tool in the arsenal.  Despite the
> advent of 
> laser-guided smart bombs and EM-pulse weapons, hoards of
> machete-toting 
> humans are still a force to contend with.
> 
> Other opinions welcome!
> 
> ___tony___
> 
> 
> 
> Tony Bartoletti 925-422-3881 <azb@llnl.gov>
> Information Operations, Warfare and Assurance Center
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> Livermore, CA 94551-9900
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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