Each piece of the battle network is indispensable, but it is the sharing of information that is most important, and most often overlooked. Things that sense and shoot are interesting. Things that share information are not. They are unsexy. They do not star in action movies. Those who regard themselves as “warfighters” rarely like to be bothered with mundane technical issues such as information protocols and pathways. But they are what transform a mess of individual military platforms into one battle network, and in an increasingly automated military they will be far more important. Indeed,
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