Give the battlefield commander access to all the information needed to win the war. And give it to him when he wants it, where he wants it and how he wants it. The problem is to grasp, in innumerable special cases, the actual situation which is covered by the mists of uncertainty, to appraise the facts correctly and to guess the unknown elements, to reach a decision quickly, and then to carry it out forcefully and relentlessly. XXI Century Missions across the full spectrum of military operations demand strategically mobile forces, rapidly deployed to decisive points anywhere on the globe, in sufficient force to control and sustain a given environment indefinitely.
Synchronized forces require informed decision making at each echelon.
Strategic, operational and tactical sensors linked to analytics fuse combat information for precision in execution. Operations across the battlespace require fluid, non-rigid mission preparation and execution. Soldiers and leaders alike require greater situational awareness, allowing risk to be accepted with space between units. Operations across the dimensions of the battlespace, executed where and when required to achieve decisive effects requires decentralized command structure. Split-based operations seize initiative, dictate tempo and maintain tempo over time.