China's military analysts, observing America's decisive Desert Storm victory, concluded they could not compete directly, instead developing a "systems confrontation" strategy to exploit U.S. warfighting vulnerabilities. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) views an army as a living network, targeting its seams across contested littorals, orbital space, information environments, public opinion, and legal domains.
While the U.S. pioneered advanced information technology in war, its Army remains organized by "warfighting functions," creating stovepiped silos vulnerable to integrated attacks on its command and control, ISR network, and logistics web. The article proposes the U.S. Army adopt "warfighting systems" as its primary organizational design, defining a system as an end-to-end architecture for specific operational outcomes like decision advantage. A pilot Information Warfighting System, with a dedicated "system-owner" construct, is suggested to address dangerous gaps and provide a blueprint for broader transformation, integrating currently scattered information capabilities into a unified operational design.
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