Networked swarming warfare

The concept of networked swarming warfare was first proposed by Dajun Huo in 2003. The key feature of the information age is the networking of organizational structure. The rising networked organization will overcome the limitation of traditional geography and link the operational resources distributed widely to form a military action network which combine strike range, speed and lethality, three elements of originally different developing, fundamentally transforming our idea of battle space. With the trend of decentralization of forces, we need to develop more small units with independent combat functions; meanwhile we can join these small units into a whole network as the technology’s development. The warfare based on this network is called networked swarming warfare.

Definition

Networked swarming warfare is a wide area maneuver warfare to attack dynamically the enemy in parallel by flexible "concentration" and "dispersion", which integrates the multiple forces distributed widely into the operational network of flows in a multi-dimensional space.

Connotations

Features

Networked swarming warfare has three essential features: flowing of organization; objective-centered; multidirectional mobile attack.

See also

Sources

Dajun Huo. Study on Networked Swarming Warfare. Beijing: National Defense University Press. 2013.

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