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Gilmary Michael Hostage III, Larry R. Broadwell, Jr.

Joint Force Quarterly, 3rd quarter 2014, issue 74, p.38-43
 

p.41 Organizational adaptability is essential to effective operations under distributed control.

p.42 The concept of a combat cloud is one technical solution that offers much promise. The strength of the combat cloud is in its pervasiveness... The combat cloud propagates information discretely without presenting finite, targetable nodes. Because a plethora of contributing nodes port information into the combat cloud, no vital node or nodes exist, eliminating the single-point weakness of a central repository. As nodes are added or disconnected from the combat cloud, its information steadily builds or gracefully degrades, with the latter being an acute advantage.