LEADER 03772oam 22006014a 450 001 9910689356803321 005 20240108210754.0 010 $a1-4294-7781-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000474727 035 $a(MH)008592083-5 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000274725 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12096565 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000274725 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10325255 035 $a(PQKB)10514504 035 $a(OCoLC)50193720 035 $aocm50193720 035 $a(OCoLC)991000000000474727 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000474727 100 $a19991227d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe World Wide Military Command and Control System $eevolution and effectiveness /$fDavid E. Pearson 210 1$aMaxwell Air Force Base, Ala. :$cAir University Press,$d[2000] 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 381 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $a"June 2000." 311 0 $a1-58566-078-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aPerhaps the best single way to summarize it is to view the book as a bureaucratic or organizational history. What the author does is to take three distinct historical themes-organization, technology, and ideology and examine how each contributed to the development of WWMCCS and its ability (and frequent inability) to satisfy the demands of national leadership. Whereas earlier works were primarily descriptive, cataloguing the command and control assets then in place or under development, The book offers more analysis by focusing on the issue of how and why WWMCCS developed the way it did. While at first glance less provocative, this approach is potentially more useful for defense decision makers dealing with complex human and technological systems in the post-cold-war era. It also makes for a better story and, I trust, a more interesting read. By necessity, this work is selective. The elements of WWMCCS are so numerous, and the parameters of the system potentially so expansive, that a full treatment is impossible within the compass of a single volume. Indeed, a full treatment of even a single WWMCCS asset or subsystem-the Defense Satellite Communications System, Extremely Low Frequency Communications, the National Military Command System, to name but a few-could itself constitute a substantial work. In its broadest conceptualization, WWMCCS is the world, and my approach has been to deal with the head of the octopus rather than its myriad tentacles. Limitation Code 606 $aWorldwide Military Command and Control System$xHistory 606 $aWorldwide Military Command and Control System$xHistory 606 $aMilitary Administration$2HILCC 606 $aMilitary & Naval Science$2HILCC 606 $aLaw, Politics & Government$2HILCC 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aWorldwide Military Command and Control System$xHistory. 615 0$aWorldwide Military Command and Control System$xHistory. 615 7$aMilitary Administration 615 7$aMilitary & Naval Science 615 7$aLaw, Politics & Government 676 $a355.3/3041/0973 700 $aPearson$b David E$g(David Eric),$f1953-$01351986 712 02$aAir University (U.S.).$bPress. 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910689356803321 996 $aThe World Wide Military Command and Control System$93145969 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress