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Wednesday, December 03, 2008, 1:37 AM
Perhaps this is one of the reason why our armed forces developed the C4I to better prepare our forces to implement the network-centric warfare doctrine. I don't really kind of able to differentiate between the raw doctrine of a maneuver and that of a network-centric. One stresses on rapid deployment, targeting enemy's center of gravity and to weaken one's will. Another, to use information and superior intelligence to better make decisions, but the end result is also the same as that of minimize collateral damage, casualties, and to weaken the will of the enemy through rapid actions, too much for the enemy to handle and cope with the battleground changes.
But even so, with the new doctrine of capitalizing on information technology to edge out opponents, hmms.. it does have its weakness as well. It's quite absurd to see how expensive gadgets and systems could be destroyed by using low technology weapons. Not forgetting this form of new doctrine against quite of a old doctrine, insurgency and guerilla warfare. And when all these form of doctrines requiring low technology equipments to utilize, to fight against technological superior foe, one generally try to make full use of the minds and hearts of the population. This way, warfare is slowly elevating to a level of ideological type of battle. When the people are together in one thoughts along with the army, it would take a very long time and requires extensive resources even for a superior technological army to defeat and to stabilize the situation. Fighting a war is one thing, re-building from the war is another. When the minds and hearts are not won sincerely, fightings and sudden strikes are bound to occur. Herein lies another form of warfare, psychological.
I think it's very interesting to understand warfare. It's a big topic, I may not fully comprehend the complexity of warfare, but I am really interested in uncovering what warfare is all about.