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Amphibious Network Lets Marines Share Data From 250 Miles Away

Posted February 09, 2012 8:08 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

The Marines think they have their data network of the future, an experimental communications system that can keep jarheads linked to sea bases 250 miles away. If it works, it'll be a big win for a Navy/Marine plan to take U.S. troops off of land bases where the locals don't want them. And it got its first test this week off the Atlantic coast during a massive wargame.

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Re: Amphibious Network Lets Marines Share Data From 250 Miles Away

02/10/2012 7:08 AM

So now, Generals who've forgotten what their Majors and Senior Captains have recently learned, or Generals who have never fought in the modern battlefield, can micro-manage from afar. And all this, STILL without ever having to actually know what the men in the trenches are learning first hand, daily!

Progress.

Sometimes, more management is a bad thing.

Whether the Marines have learned that will be demonstrated by HOW the senior management uses these new capabilities.

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