As I conclude my presentation, it is appropriate to look very quickly at two important concepts.
The first is that of command, control, communications, computing, and intelligence, or C4I. DoD is making major investments in C4I under the rubric of achieving "information superiority" but they are the wrong investments and will ultimately leave DoD both bankrupt and out of touch with anyone that matters.
The new world demands that we turn our C4I paradigm on its head. We can no longer plan on unilateral warfare using secret sources that nurture top-down decision-making. Every major issue in national security today requires a bottom-up multi-cultural approach that relies almost exclusively on open sources of information sources that can be shared and do not violate the integrity of any of the participants.
TRANSITION: When you change the information relationship, you also change the power relationship.
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