Network-Centric Warfare: How Navies Learned to Fight Smarter Through Three World Wars

by Norman Friedman

Book Overview

This book explains what network-centric warfare is, and how it works, using concrete historical naval examples rather than the usual abstractions. It argues that navies invented this style of warfare over the last century, led by the Royal Navy, and that the wars of that century, culminating in the Cold War, show how networked warfare worked - and did not work.These wars also illustrate what net-on-net warfare means; most exponents of the new style...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591142865
• ISBN13: 9781591142867
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"