Weapons Go From Smart to Brilliant - High-Tech Advances Offer Promise of a Different Kind of Gulf War

... The key to a delivering a quick knockout blow will be U.S. predominance in information technology, explains John Pike, an analyst with military think-tank GlobalSecurity.org in Alexandria, Va.

"Think about the digital cameras and laptop computers and wideband communications and personal digital assistants and cell phones and cable TVs and all of the Information Revolution things that many people experience over last dozen years," says Pike. "Basically, all of that has had an impact on the military, too."

According to Pike, "the military is now linked together by e-mail, internal Web sites, chat rooms and video conferencing." And just as such digital connectivity has helped the corporate world conduct business more efficiently, it will help U.S.-led forces wage war faster.

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