The World Wide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS): Report on Evolution, Effectiveness, Implementation, Eisenhower and the Cold War to the Space Satellite Era

Download or read book The World Wide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS): Report on Evolution, Effectiveness, Implementation, Eisenhower and the Cold War to the Space Satellite Era written by Air University Press and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive analysis of the worldwide military command and control system (WWMCCS), the author examines how organization, technology, and ideology contributed to the development of WWMCCS. He explains how and why WWMCCS developed the way it did. An interview with the chief technical officer of the system that replaced WWMCCS brings a contemporary flavor to the study.PART I * Conceptualization * 1 Centralizing the Defense Establishment * 2 Defense Communications Agency and System * 3 National Military Command System * 4 WWMCCS Is Born * 5 Three WWMCCS Failures * PART II * Formalization * 6 WWMCCS Automatic Data Processing Upgrade * 7 Centralizing Communications Management * 8 The WWMCCS Council and the Modern WWMCCS Structure * 9 The WWMCCS Architect and Architecture * 10 WWMCCS Intercomputer Network * 11 The Carter Administration and the Evolutionary Approach * 12 Crises and Criticisms * 13 Failures at NORAD * PART III * Implementation * 14 Strategic Modernization * 15 The C3I Triad: Programs * 16 WWMCCS Information System * 17 Defense Centralization * 18 Defense Communications and the End of the Cold War * 19 Organization, Technology, and Ideology in Command and Control