The Future Of War: Organizations As Weapons

''Analysts have heralded the qualitative improvement in military technology, operational concepts, and weapons that transforms the nature and character of warfare as a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). However discussions focusing on military technology too often ignore the role of military organization in improving combat capability. They downplay the difficulties of coordinating many people and officers having specialized roles, and the challenges of calculation, attention, and memory that face individuals making decisions with inadequate or ambiguous information under short deadlines or in stressful situations.
About Author :
Dr. Mark D. Mandeles formed The J. De Bloch Group, an independent consulting company, in 1993 to examine awide range of national security and foreign policy issues. In this capacity, he has consulted for the Director of Net Assessment, the Director of Force Transformation, the Under Secretary of Defence for Policy, Centre for Naval Analyses, other Defence Department agencies and private industry. He has published essays, articles, and reviews on command and control, naval weapons acquisition, professional military education, military doctrine, nuclear strategy, military innovation, the revolution in military affairs, and ballistic missile and nuclear weapons proliferation.With Thomas C. Hone and Norman Friedman, he co-wrote American and British Aircraft Carrier Development, 1919-1941, published by the Naval Institute Press.With Thomas C. Hone and Sanford S. terry, he co-wrote Managing "Command and Control " in the Persian Gulf War published by Praeger. He also wrote The Development of the B-52 and Jet Propulsion published by Air University Press. Dr. Mandeles Lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
Contents :
List of Acronyms Acknowledgement Introduction Histrory, Inferences, and Learning Levels of Analysis, Trade-offs, and The Future of War Command and Control at the Dawn of a Military Revolution Network-Centric Warfare Comparison of Organizational Structures A Military Revolution by the Mid-Twenty-First Century Index About the Author