Information and communications technologies are having a profound impact, both domestically and globally, on how future war will be waged. These technologies are providing affordable, worldwide, near real-time, 24-hour, CNN-like news coverage; worldwide Internet access; and more importantly, access to commercial space systems, including remote sensing, communications and navigation. Unfortunately, this explosion in world- wide information and communication systems creates vulnerabilities for U. S. national security. One such vulnerability is information transparency. This transparency is the result of the worldwide explosion in quantity and quality of information available to the general user, the accessibility to this information, and the affordability in acquiring any data product desired. The resultant electronic information symmetry makes the world transparent, where anyone can keep tabs on the actions of everyone else. | The End Of Secrecy? Military Competitiveness In The Age Of Transparency by Beth M Kaspar, Paperback | Indigo Chapters