How “Near-Peer” Adversaries are Changing Command Posts and Battlefield Network Requirements
Future battles may be against so-called “near- peer” adversaries who may already be ahead of America’s best technologies. It’s time to adopt the latest consumer technologies in the command post by making it more mobile or by making it virtual, like UAV pilots far from the front lines. But that strategy requires an entire tent’s worth of analysts, radio operators and personnel—plus their generators, SATCOM gear and miscellaneous hardware—to be shrunk down to something that fits in the back of a Humvee, an MRAP or a Stryker.
