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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