Written by Dabney B. on Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
In the famous science fiction novel Ender’s Game, the inhabitants of earth fight against a race of aliens that act in perfect synchronicity. Each ship in the alien fleet thinks and acts with one mind; once one ship is aware of a threat, every other ship in the fleet is aware of it. This is a common trope in science-fiction, typically referred to as a “hivemind.”
Once again, the US military is blurring the border between reality and science fiction by bringing the allied forces of the world one step closer to operating in a harmonious hivemind-like network.
Now, when a Turkish jet flying over the Turkey-Syria border accelerates, Air Force officials thousands of miles away in the US can immediately become aware of this change.
Hopefully, other NATO nations will follow suit and unite their information networks with the US. Sharing our battlefield data with other NATO allies, such as the England, France, and Portugal, will allow each member of information alliance bring our allied strength to even higher levels.
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