How Will the Internet Affect Military Ops?: The Defense Science Board plans to find out, launching a summer study to come to grips with the revolutionary military operations that include “Googling” and “blogging.” The increasing reliance of the military on Internet operations raises the question of what information networks will be needed for future operations and how to develop a “clear direction and defined doctrine,” writes Ken Krieg, Pentagon acquisition guru and ostensible head of the DSB, in a memo requesting a study titled “Information Management for Net-Centric Operations.” Krieg adds, the ability to leverage information and networking will be a “critical enabling factor” in developing better ways to work within the government and with coalition partners, since access to information and collaboration is the “lifeblood of military and civil-military operations.”
Dick Cheney’s Legacy with the Air Force
Nov. 6, 2025
Dick Cheney, who died Nov. 3 at 84, is best remembered by most Americans as among the most powerful Vice Presidents in history, a consummate Washington insider who had previously served in the Nixon administration, was Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford, a Congressman for a decade, and Secretary…
