Source of Network Centric Revolution

Excerpt: Network-Centric Warfare: Its Origin and Future

Network-centric warfare and all of its associated revolutions in military affairs grow out of and draw their power from the fundamental changes in American society. These changes have been dominated by the co-evolution of economics, information technology, and business processes and organizations, and they are linked by three themes:

• The shift in focus from the platform to the network
  
• The shift from viewing actors as independent to viewing them as part of a continuously adapting ecosystem
  
• The importance of making strategic choices to adapt or even survive in such changing ecosystems