A New American Way of War? C4ISR in Operation Iraqi Freedom, A Provisional Assessment

Authors

  • John Ferris University of Calgary

Abstract

This article uses evidence in the public domain about Operation Iraqi Freedom, as a means to assess how far American military forces are able to act on ideas about net-centric warfare, information operations, and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. From that basis, it assesses the feasibility of these ideas themselves.

Author Biography

John Ferris, University of Calgary

John Ferris is a Professor of History and a Fellow of The Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. He is a specialist in the history and study of strategy, intelligence, command, control and intelligence. His most recent book is A World History of Warfare (The University of Nebraska Press, 2002; co-authored with Christon Archer, Holger Herwig and Tim Travers).

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Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2003): Spring 2003

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Articles