The Doctrine of Digital War

When defence secretary Donald H Rumsfeld, mindful of America’s two-month rout of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, sat down with war planners to prepare for a US-led thrust into Iraq, he had a vision of how the unfolding conflict would play out.

A devotee of a new theory of warfare that places enormous stress on air power, computer communications, and small, agile ground forces, the Pentagon chief began work on a battle plan that was a marvel of technological prowess.

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