Drawing on articles, interviews, and the Congressional testimony of the late Vice Admiral Arthur Cebrowski, Transforming Military Force focuses on the former officer's effort to develop new theories and strategies for what he called network-centric warfare and the need to leverage advances in military technology to develop new systems as the military wages war in the information age.
James R. Blaker is a vice president and senior analyst at the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Previously, he served as senior advisor to the Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Analysis, and Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force. Dr. Blaker is the author of United States Overseas Basing: An Anatomy of the Dilemma (Praeger, 1990).
Blaker spent October 2001 to November 2005 meeting frequently with
the late Vice Admiral (ret.) Arthur K. Cebrowski and listening to
him outline his ideas on military transformation, ideas he was in a
position to implement as he spent most of this period as Director
of the Office of Force Transformation in the US Department of
Defense. Blaker takes the reader through Cebrowski's views of
network- centric warfare and how it should be adopted by the US
military. Blaker also assesses Cebrowski's influence while at the
Office of Force Transformation and describes his perspective on
bureaucratic infighting while at the Pentagon.
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