Joint Vision 2020 was a document released on May 30, 2000, by the
United States Department of Defense
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proclaiming the need for "
full-spectrum dominance" on the battlefield. The Joint Vision 2020 concepts have subsequently formed the basis of United States
military doctrine
Military doctrine is the expression of how military forces contribute to campaigns, major operations, battles, and engagements. A military doctrine outlines what military means should be used, how forces should be structured, where forces shou ...
.
The document envisages the military threats that might confront the United States in the year 2020 and possible responses to these threats.
Information operations
Information Operations is a category of direct and indirect support operations for the United States Military. By definition in Joint Publication 3-13, "IO are described as the integrated employment of electronic warfare (EW), computer netw ...
were a primary focus of the document, as well as the rapidly-accelerating pace of technological development.
See also
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Network-centric warfare
Network-centric warfare, also called network-centric operations or net-centric warfare, is a military doctrine or theory of war that aims to translate an information advantage, enabled partly by information technology, into a competitive advantag ...
External links
''Joint Vision 2020'' online versionArchived on Nov 04, 2001
Defense Link article, June 2000
United States Department of Defense publications
United States military policies
United States Department of Defense doctrine
2020 in the United States
2000 documents
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