The Command or Control Dilemma When Technology and Organizational Orientation Collide

By Gregory A. Roman, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF PDF

Book Id: WPLBN0002170440
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Reproduction Date: 10/15/2012

Title:	The Command or Control Dilemma When Technology and Organizational Orientation Collide
Author:	Gregory A. Roman, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF PDF
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Military Science, War
Collections:	Authors Community, Technology
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Publisher:	Air University Press

Member Page:	Air University Press
Citation APA MLA Chicago A. Roman, Lieutenant Colonel, Usaf Pd, B. G. (n.d.). The Command or Control Dilemma When Technology and Organizational Orientation Collide. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
In this well-researched and insightful study, Lt Col Gregory A. Roman examines the relationships between military organizational hierarchies and the impact of battlespace information. Drawing on a sophisticated range of studies and data and using numerous illustrations, the author contends that the outmoded effects of traditionally centralized (and technologically proliferating) command and control orientations preclude the US military (and particularly the Air Force) from effectively applying and acting upon the benefits of information-age technologies in an age of information warfare. The author sees future warfare characterized by faster decision making, faster operational tempos, and a torrent of tactical battlefield information. These new realities necessitate greater decentralization of control, more flexible information gathering, and creative, nontraditional military organizational arrangements.