NETWORK-CENTRIC WARFARE AND NETWORK ENABLED CAPABILITY IMPLICATIONS OVER THE C4ISR TYPE INFORMATION NETWORKS IN THE ROMANIAN ARMED FORCES

The last two decades mark out the humankind evolution toward the Information Age, a new stage of societal development where the modern society is affected, among other factors, by the explosive technological changes. Within the context, technology represents the main changing driver. To be more specific, small innovations appeared in the information technology and communications are considered to be responsible for the global transformations in the economy, politics or culture structure. This assertion also extends its validity over the military phenomenon, which is just another human behavior. The use on large scale of the information technology and communications led to a cybernetic battlefield and the change of the waging war philosophy, with the arising of new concepts that better describe the new reality: Network Centric Warfare, and Network Enabled Capabilities.