Research Catalog

Title

Computers on the battlefield : can they survive? / by Richard J. DeBastiani.

Author

DeBastiani, Richard J.

Publication

Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press ; Washington, D.C. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

National Defense University.

Description

ix, 102 pages : illustrations, charts; 21 cm

Summary

"This study has an underlying central question: Does using the computer in combat aid or hinder the Army in defeating the enemy? To bound this question, the analysis is limited to battlefield computers (computers used in the direct support of the corps and division). Although many of the comments throughout this study are applicable to computers embedded in weapons systems, this evaluation of Army computer systems is directed toward general purpose computers used in logistics, administration, and command and control systems."--Page 2.

Series Statement

National security affairs monograph series ; 83-5

Uniform Title

National security affairs monograph series ; 83-5.

Subject

• Computer networks
• Combat > Data processing
• Computer Communication Networks
• Combat > Data processing
• Computer networks
• Military art and science > Automation
• Combat survivability (Military engineering)
• United States of America
• Computers
• National defence
• United States
• United States

Genre/Form

Government publications

Note

• S/N 008-020-00954-7.
• Item 378-H.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: why study computers? -- An electronic beachhead: computer systems survivability -- The whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- Lessons learned -- Conclusions: what is to be done? -- Appendix A case in point: the theater army supply system.

LCCN

83602876

OCLC

• ocm09948043
• 9948043
• SCSB-1392486

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library