Internet

<p>How can the professional military officer keep pace with the rapid information technology explosion and maintain an informational advantage over potential adversaries? The solution to this problem lies in part in educating officers on the capabilities of the Internet regardless of their mission or unit affiliation. This paper examines the key role the Internet must play in educating future military campaign planners. It describes how an Internet education program was developed and presented to the students of the Air Force's Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) during the 1994-1995 academic year and presents a notional case study that relied on information extracted off the Internet to plan a military campaign. The method of research included traditional approaches such as interviews literature searches in libraries student surveys analysis and interpretation of survey results as well as a non-traditional (for most military researchers) approach--using the tools of the Internet itself to conduct research. The primary findings of the paper are the military should expand its Internet education and military officers must as part of their professional development seek out this information. The lesson and teaching plans used to teach the Internet course to the ACSC students and the scenario developed for the case study are included in the appendices.</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>