“The most influential factor in military action is the information advantage.” The IT service provider CGI, which develops IT systems for NATO, among other things, came up with this thesis in the report “Command Post 4.0” published in 2019. Many historical examples in which armed conflicts were decisively influenced by information superiority support this thesis.
The enormous acceleration of information processing and transmission through technical innovations, for example through digital radio transmission with broadband waveforms, illustrates the importance of the aforementioned information superiority over the enemy.
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