Check this out:
"Where network-centric warfare is going is moving the principal systems of weapons from the big, heavy, slow stuff to the small, light, fast, inexpensive (weapons), many of (which) -- and here's the important part -- is very smart."
I think the key phrase is: "network-centric warfare "
It's interesting how different paradigms infect the thinking of so many different disciplines. We're seeing networks everywhere. Now we're seeing the linked battlefield. A move towards faster smaller units working as one. We saw quite a bit of that in the Iraq conflict with the increased coordination of mech, infantry, and air. One particular example was the ground forces having screenshots of where enemy targets were in real-time as spotted by helicopters and planes.
Of course, networks are everywhere else too. They are appearing in the white papers of many somewhat unrelated scientific disciplines.
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