عنوان

The World Wide Military Command and Control System :

(Number (ISBN

1429477814

(Number (ISBN

9781429477819

Erroneous ISBN

1585660787

Erroneous ISBN

9781585660780

Number

b763358

Number

D 301.26/6:2002020505

Title Proper

The World Wide Military Command and Control System :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

evolution and effectiveness /

First Statement of Responsibility

David E. Pearson.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Maxwell AFB, AL :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Air University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2000.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxi, 381 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps

Text of Note

"June 2000."

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Perhaps the best single way to summarize it is to view the book as a bureaucratic or organizational history. What the author does is to take three distinct historical themes-organization, technology, and ideology and examine how each contributed to the development of WWMCCS and its ability (and frequent inability) to satisfy the demands of national leadership. Whereas earlier works were primarily descriptive, cataloguing the command and control assets then in place or under development, The book offers more analysis by focusing on the issue of how and why WWMCCS developed the way it did. While at first glance less provocative, this approach is potentially more useful for defense decision makers dealing with complex human and technological systems in the post-cold-war era. It also makes for a better story and, I trust, a more interesting read. By necessity, this work is selective. The elements of WWMCCS are so numerous, and the parameters of the system potentially so expansive, that a full treatment is impossible within the compass of a single volume. Indeed, a full treatment of even a single WWMCCS asset or subsystem-the Defense Satellite Communications System, Extremely Low Frequency Communications, the National Military Command System, to name but a few-could itself constitute a substantial work. In its broadest conceptualization, WWMCCS is the world, and my approach has been to deal with the head of the octopus rather than its myriad tentacles. Limitation Code.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Title

World Wide Military Command and Control System.

International Standard Book Number

9781585660780

Worldwide Military Command and Control System-- History.

HISTORY-- Military-- Biological & Chemical Warfare.

Worldwide Military Command and Control System

Worldwide Military Command and Control System.

Worldwide Military Command and Control System.

HIS-- 027010

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Pearson, David E., (David Eric),1953-

Date of Transaction

20201204225107.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

Y