[Terror] A God's-Eye View

From The New York Times:
The Pentagon is building its own Internet, the military's world wide web for the wars of the future.
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This "Internet in the sky," Peter Teets, under secretary of the Air Force, told Congress, would allow "marines in a Humvee, in a faraway land, in the middle of a rainstorm, to open up their laptops, request imagery" from a spy satellite, and "get it downloaded within seconds."
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The Pentagon calls the secure network the Global Information Grid, or GIG. Conceived six years ago, its first connections were laid six weeks ago. It may take two decades and hundreds of billions of dollars to build the new war net and its components.
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Every member of the military would have "a picture of the battle space, a God's-eye view," he said. "And that's real power."

Indeed.