Christos Tsikolis

Dominance over Omnidimensional Battlespace: Network Centric Warfare As Polemos Christos Tsikolis

Throughout the centuries much debate has been made over the practice of War, the procedures that create the circumstances which lead to its employment, and the questioning of its inevitability in the contemporary world. Traditional warfighting has changed in the 1990s due to the rapid development of ICTs, leading into a whole new generation of warfare. The military must adapt or fail. Exponential increases in the availability of information are leading to an era of cheap information available to anyone, anywhere and the emergence of Network Centric Operations. This will vastly change the nature of the battlespaces and the nature of war itself. This whole procedure goes under the name of ¿Force Transformation¿ and has as an utter goal the Dominance over the Full Spectrum of Operations. So, the question to ponder is ¿Can Transformation be managed and if yes, how?¿