It is not enough to degrade its armed forces and to eliminate command, communications and intelligence nodes.
The draft of the review said that the department would set up task forces to review command, communications, personnel, equipment, intelligence, training and planning.
Local NATO headquarters would be among the last to withdraw from a newly peaceful area, since their capabilities for command, communications and training might be the last to be developed by the Afghans themselves.
He wanted the president at Offutt Air Force Base outside Omaha, which he knew from his days as secretary of defense had an extraordinarily sophisticated strategic command communications center.
The Fifth Panzer Army had already laid down its arms before this order was given, and Model's command communications in the pocket was disintegrating.
- Details on military command, control, communications, computer and intelligence (C4I) systems.
(The four Cs are command, control, communications, and computers; ISR stands for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; the Pentagon loves its abbreviations).General Chen describes the period up to 2010 as "laying the foundations of modernised forces".
As Global Crossing fought for the contract last October, Mr. Cook arranged a meeting with John P. Stenbit, the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, to press the company's case.
"EMS is a terrific addition to Honeywell, adding leading positions in attractive markets that are closely aligned with favorable trends in the growing command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance space and commercial aerospace," said Dave Cote, above, Honeywell's chief executive.
That conflict so taxed some components of the military's system for command, control, communications, as well as surveillance and intelligence gathering, that they would have been unavailable if an adversary in another region had chosen that moment to challenge the United States.
The PLA is rapidly developing asymmetric warfare techniques against US command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance infrastructure, known as "C4ISR" in military parlance.
