From New Wars:
We are in the midst of a revolution in military affairs (RMA) unlike any seen since the Napoleonic Age, when France transformed warfare with the concept of leve en masse. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jay Johnson has called it “a fundamental shift from what we call platform-centric warfare to something we call network-centric warfare,” and it will prove to be the most important RMA in the past 200 years.
Admiral Art Cebrowski “Network-Centric Warfare: Its Origin and Future“
The crisis brewing in shipbuilding, aircraft manufacture, armored vehicles procurement can find its roots as well as solutions in network-centric warfare. New computer weapons from UAVs to sensors and precision add-ons to old fashioned dumb bombs are being purchased in large numbers while older platforms, jet fighters, future tanks, large warships and suffering through post industrial age growing pangs. They are too big, complicated, or costly to build in large numbers, while established Western armies, with some exceptions are too satisfied with last-century tactics borne in world wars and past victories to reform. The future seems to be in Asia who also have embraced the new technology more readily than the West, but there is still hope. Ares blog reveals how this future concept will work:
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My Comment: I have been commenting on this for the past two years. The New Wars blog outlines everything far more clearer than what I can do. Read the entire post.