The Future the US Military is Constructing: a Giant, Armed Nervous System

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The Future the US Military is Constructing: a Giant, Armed Nervous System

• BY PATRICK TUCKERREAD BIO
  

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
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• TECHNOLOGY
  

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Service chiefs are converging on a single strategy for military dominance: connect everything to everything.
Leaders of the Air Force, Navy, Army and Marines are converging on a vision of the future military: connecting every asset on the global battlefield.
That means everything from F-35 jets overhead to the destroyers on the sea to the armor of the tanks crawling over the land to the multiplying devices in every troops’ pockets. Every weapon, vehicle, and device connected, sharing data, constantly aware of the presence and state of every other node in a truly global network. The effect: an unimaginably large cephapoloidal nervous system armed with the world’s most sophisticated weaponry.

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