Wargame Tests Military's Ability to Fight with Networks Out of Commission

By Sebastian Sprenger / June 3, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Defense officials want to know how the world's most advanced military would fare in fights where a crucial element of its might goes missing -- the network. The question is part of a wargame officials are conducting in the Washington area this week to test the tenets of the Capstone Concept for Joint Operations, last updated in January. In operations over the past years, small units have extensively employed sophisticated network capabilities to share vital battlefield information, like the positions...

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