Bill R.: Ten years ago the information warfare mafia in the Pentagon (actually OSD/C3I) was warning of this pending problem. To no avail. If you build it (or can lease it) they will come. This really is an achilles tendon for our US forces.
Military Faces Bandwidth Crunch. Everything from fighter-plane video feeds to PowerPoint slides to sailors' notes home jams the military's Internet pipes. Despite the Pentagon's efforts to boost bandwidth, there's never enough. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]