Napoleon’s Army may have marched on its stomach, but the U.S. Army today depends on electrons. Now, as the service struggles with the fallout from cutting short with what was its flagship network program, WIN-T, Breaking Defense collects our best coverage of how we got here.
From the foot soldier navigating the front lines with GPS, to the drone taking pictures overhead, to the officer making plans at the command post, to the supply clerk ordering spare parts back at base, a modern army depends on a complex network of computers sharing data over land lines and radio waves.
But land lines can be cut, radio waves can be jammed, and computers can be hacked.
All these tactics and technologies must be updated for the modern age. We tackle these issues and more in The Army Overhauls Its Networks For Future War.
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