Verbund Nachrichtengewinnung und Aufklärung
In: Europäische Sicherheit: Politik, Streitkräfte, Wirtschaft, Technik, Band 52, Heft 6, S. 39-45
ISSN: 0940-4171
The winning of information superiority in all fields relevant to military acting is increasingly becoming an indispensable prerequisite for the successful employment of military forces. Terms like "Network Centric Warfare" and "Transformation" define approaches as to how this goal can be achieved. Why then talk of a "composite intelligence and reconnaissance system", if other are obviously thinking one step ahead already? The objective is to first create the preconditions by establishing an efficient composite intelligence and reconnaissance system in order to progress in a second evolution stage up to a "transparent information area" for the employment of the armed forces. It is consequently necessary to gain intellectual clarity about what in fact is to be achieved with a view to the future capability of the armed forces. (Europ Sicherheit / SWP)