U.S. Army War College's (USAWC) Center for Strategic Leadership in cooperation with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Office of Force Transformation (OFT) initiated a study entitled "Network Centric Warfare Case Study: U.S. V Corps and 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized) during Operation Iraqi Freedom (March-April 2003)." Previous case studies have quite adequately covered the "shooter-sensor" interface from a systems perspective. None, however, have addressed the impact of Network Centric Warfare (NCW) from the human perspective. This is the essence of land warfare, and why this study is so important. Volume I, entitled "Operations" uses the metrics provided in the NCW Conceptual Framework as the guide in the conduct of the analysis concerning the applicability of NCW tenets during the conduct of major offensive combat operations. Volume 2, "A View of Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Architectures at the Dawn of Network Centric Warfare," provides the military reader with three insights: 1) a historical view of the advances in technology that ultimately enabled a computer communications network; 2) an encapsulation of the Army command, control, communications, and computer (C4) architecture for V Corps and 3 ID during the two specific timeframes referred to as pre-OIF and OIF-1; 3) an examination of future communications programs that are underway for the next generation of C4 architecture with respect to the ability of the DoD acquisition process to keep pace with the rapid advances in technology. Volume 3 is meant to provide the military reader with two sets of insights: first, an introductory view of implications of network centric warfare for the operational and strategic levels of war, and second, a series of six short tactical-level battle stories or vignettes that can be used to further the study of network centric warfare tenets and to illustrate the impact of new technologies on organizations, leaders, and combat effectiveness. .

VOLUME 1. OPERATIONS. Introduction -- Study methodology -- Network centric warfare -- Going to war -- Findings and observations -- DOTMLPF -- Recommendations -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: peer reviewers -- Appendix B: personal interviews -- Appendix C: glossary -- Appendix D: technical systems -- Appendix E: senior officer interview questionnaire -- Appendix F: officer interview questionnaire -- Appendix G: survey questions -- Appendix H: survey results / VOLUME 2. COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES. C3: command, control and communications before computers -- A methodological model for C4 architectures -- Pre-OIF C4 architecture -- C4 architecture during OIF 1 -- C4 programs of record in the wake of OIF -- Un-programmed C4 architectures in the wake of OIF -- Envisioning C4 architectures for the foreseeable future -- Meeting accelerated expectations: sustaining the vision -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: glossary -- Appendix B: peer reviewer -- Appendix C: corps signal unit TOE -- Appendix D: major MSE and DGM components -- Appendix E: technical system links -- Appendix F: GBS data sources / VOLUME 3. NETWORK CENTRIC WARFARE INSIGHTS. Introduction -- Strategic and operational implications -- Battle stories: introduction -- Tallil Air Base -- Relief at As Samawah -- The "five simultaneous attacks" -- Logistics -- Objective Peach -- "Thunder runs" -- Appendix A: glossary -- Appendix B: volume 1 findings and observations -- Appendix C: tenets of network centric warfare -- Appendix D: peer reviewer -- Appendix E: maps -- Appendix F: the levels of war.