How the West Was Won

<p>The connectedness of the Information Age has increased the signature of complexity in human interactions. It has not changed the nature of war but has changed its character. Over the last decade the military has sought to adapt to this new character of war through a program called transformation. The Department of Defense has chosen Network-Centric Operations (NCO) originally called Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) as the means of transformation. The military is tentative about NCO however and often concentrates on only its technological aspects and disregards the doctrinal and organizational changes that are also important. The military's hesitancy to adopt NCO as an operational concept for transformation and tendency to over pursue its technological aspects are partly because neither the founders nor critics of NCO have defined its essence. This thesis proposes that the essence of NCO is dynamic operational mutual support (DOMS). The essence of something is its ultimate and unique nature that helps clarify its structure and aids in understanding.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>