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Mandeles acknowledges an intellectual debt to Jean de Bloch who applied a multilayered analysis to the study of warfare in the early 1900s; an approach recommended for modern-day analysts who tend to focus more exclusively on technical advances in command, control, communications, intelligence, long-range precision weapons, and reconnaissance. Mandeles flatly asserts that the command, control, computers, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technologies central to network-centric warfare will not translate to war-fighting effectiveness until they are linked with formal and informal military organizations in addition to doctrine and operational concepts.
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The Future of War: Organizations As Weapons
The Future of War: Organizations as Weapons. By Mark D. Mandeles. Dulles,Va.: Potomac Books, 2005. 205 pages. $48.00 ($24.00 paper). Reviewed by Colonel George E. Reed, Director of Command and Leadership Studies, US Army War College.
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