Netcentric Warfare, C4ISR and Information Operations: Towards a Revolution in Military Intelligence?

Ferris, John

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“…It might not have been the panacea the US national security community hoped for, but its potential was palpable. 36 Regardless of national issues in achieving and managing jointery, anything that might improve the connection between intelligence and operations would necessarily have a wider appeal. And so ISR found a receptive audience amongst many of America's NATO and 5 Eyes allies.…”

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ISR versus ISTAR: A Conceptual Crisis in British Military Intelligence

Davies

2021

International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence

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Between 2009 and2011 there was an intense debate in UK, Canadian and Australian military intelligence circles regarding two putatively competing doctrinal concepts. These were USoriginated 'intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance' (ISR) and the British-originated 'intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance' (ISTAR). While the inclusion, or not, of 'target acquisition' (TA) might seem a marginal difference, in fact the TA question opened up wider and deeper range of existing concerns about the organisational and doctrinal relationships between intelligence and operations in a military command staff. In 2011, senior echelons in UK defence intelligence shut the debate down with a summary decision to abandon ISTAR in favour of ISR.Nonetheless, ISTAR persisted as the preferred term of art in a number of UK and allied defence quarters. This article argues that ISTAR persisted because there was a practical need for the concept. Furthermore, that need reflected significant changes in the basic relationship between intelligence and operations arising from a range of technological and doctrinal transformations evolving out of what is commonly referred to as the 'Revolution in Military Affairs'. The article concludes that these alterations in the intelligence-operations dynamic remain to be properly addressed in UK and allied intelligence doctrine. IN PRESS WITH International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligenceof effects…' 3 However marginal the apparent difference in the two ideas might appear, the relative authoritativeness and suitability of the two concepts became a keenly fought dispute.

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ISR versus ISTAR: A Conceptual Crisis in British Military Intelligence

Davies

2021

International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence

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“…This was the change affecting advanced militaries whereby technology allowed different elements to be brought together into a single information-based system, at times also called 'net-centric warfare'. 9 The envisioned benefits were clear, allowing sophisticated militaries to enhance their capabilities and efficiency in harnessing information technology to widen the force capability gap between the technological haves and have-nots on the battlefield. 10 One dimension of the RMA was information and intelligence; thus, a brief debate emerged about whether the RMA was accompanied by an identifiable 'revolution in intelligence affairs', as was argued by Eric Denece.…”

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Intelligence in the Cyber Era: Evolution or Revolution?

Gioe¹,

Goodman²,

Stevens³

2020

Political Science Quarterly

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“…Amid the millennial excitement about the information age of the 1990s (Lawson 2014), military officers wrote books with titles like Lifting the Fog of War , imagining that “technology can give us the ability to see a ‘battlefield’ as large as Iraq…with unprecedented fidelity, comprehension, and timeliness” (Owens and Offley 2000, 15). Despite the technocratic optimism, uncertainty was endemic in Iraq, and the US military struggled to adjust ideas about “network centric warfare” to a foggier reality (Ferris 2004; Biddle 2007; Shimko 2010; Lindsay 2013). Numerous critics have lambasted visions of better fighting through information technology, affirming the Clausewitzian nature of war as a “paradoxical trinity” of political reason, elemental violence, and random chance (Beyerchen 1992; Van Riper 1997; Harknett 2000; McMaster 2003; Watts 2004).…”

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Lindsay

2017

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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The nineteenth-century strategist Carl von Clausewitz describes “fog” and “friction” as fundamental features of war. Military leverage of sophisticated information technology in the twenty-first century has improved some tactical operations but has not lifted the fog of war, in part, because the means for reducing uncertainty create new forms of it. Drawing on active duty experience with an American special operations task force in Western Iraq from 2007 to 2008, this article traces the targeting processes used to “find, fix, and finish” alleged insurgents. In this case they did not clarify the political reality of Anbar province but rather reinforced a parochial worldview informed by the Naval Special Warfare community. The unit focused on the performance of “direct action” raids during a period in which “indirect action” engagement with the local population was arguably more appropriate for the strategic circumstances. The concept of “data friction”, therefore, can be understood not simply as a form of resistance within a sociotechnical system but also as a form of traction that enables practitioners to construct representations of the world that amplify their own biases.

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Netcentric Warfare, C4ISR and Information Operations: Towards a Revolution in Military Intelligence?

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ISR versus ISTAR: A Conceptual Crisis in British Military Intelligence

ISR versus ISTAR: A Conceptual Crisis in British Military Intelligence

Intelligence in the Cyber Era: Evolution or Revolution?

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