1. General Colin Powell, "Information Age Warrior," BYTE, July 1992.

2. Vice Admiral Richard C. Macke, U.S. Navy, "Information Exchange Poses Enhanced Warrior Prowess," Signal, June 1992.

3. Peter Grier, "Data Weapon," Government Executive, June 1992.

4. Lieutenant Commander Larry Di Rita, "Exocets, Air Traffic & The Air Tasking Orders, US Naval Institute Proceedings, August 1992.

5. Ibid.

6. Captain T. F. Marfiak, U.S. Navy, Comments and Discussion, Naval Institute Proceedings, September 1992.

7. Personal communication, Vice Admiral Jerry O. Tuttle, U.S. Navy, Director, Space and Electronic Warfare, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, "U.N, Navy Seeks to Bolster Communication Weak Link," Signal, August 1991.

8. Ibid.

9. Lieutenant Colonel Rick Lewis, U.S. Air Force, "Importance of Centralized Control of Air at Desert Storm," private correspondence, November 1991.

10. The officer based his claim on the Marine AV-8s' flying about 4,000 sorties with 500 kills (13 percent) and Air Force A-10s' scoring 1,400 kills out of 4,000 sorties (35 percent).

11. Air Force Colonel R. Pastusek, private conversation.

12. Ibid.

13. Grier, June 1992.

14. At the time, civilian models could pinpoint a location anywhere on Earth within a 25-meter range and military models were even more precise. By late 1992, with military equipment market open to almost anyone who had the money, military GPS versions with accuracies of 5 yards were readily available. Economist, 5 September 1992.

15. Ibid, Dick How, head of the Pentagon's C3 efforts. JTIDS will be discussed later.

16. Captain Kenneth E. Hill, Jr., and Captain Richard T. Ulrich, U.S. Air Force, "A Case Study of the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS)," unpublished Master's thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, March 1991.

17. Conversation with Colonel J. David Bryan, U.S. Army, Chief, Architecture and Integration Division (J61), The Joint Staff, May 1992.

18. Conversation with General Jenkins, May 1992.

19. C4I for the Warrior, Joint Staff, June 1992.

20. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Military Strategy Document, (NMSD) FY1994-1999, Annex C, (C4), June 1992.

21. From C4I for the Warrior, "Fusion is the process of receiving and integrating all-source, multimedia, and multiformat information to produce and make available an accurate, complete summary that is as timely, but more concise, less redundant, and more useful to the Warrior than if the same information were received directly from separate multiple sources."

22. Captain Mike Macedonia, U.S. Navy, Military Review, October 1992.