The ANI has covered new warfighting concepts in its various publications during its 50 years. A notable one was network centric warfare (NCW), also known as Network Centric Operations (NCO), which championed by the US Department of Defense in the 1990s. Admiral Jay Johnson, the former US Chief of Naval Operations wrote, “The information revolution has fundamentally changed the nature of naval warfare. The battlefield of the 21st century will be one in which the force with mastery of the information spectrum will prevail, making information superiority critical to our warfighting success.”
The Summer 2001-2 edition of the Journal of the Australian Naval Institute contained a number of NCW articles, including one by Commander Vern Dutschke on how the USN viewed NCO.
