According to ACM's News' daily clipping of today, the MIT Technology Review quotes a largely classified assessment of the war being readied by Rand, which, among other things says:

Hopes that networking technology would make the U.S. military a leaner, more effective fighting machine were undercut by its disappointing performance in the Iraq War's ground campaign, which was characterized by a lack of situational awareness among ground forces due to a "digital divide."...

Owen Cote of MIT's Security Studies Program says problems such as these indicate that "If there is this 'revolution in military affairs,' and if this revolution is based on technologies that allow you to network sensors and process information more quickly and spread it out quickly in digestible form, we are still just scratching the surface of it." Certain force transformation proponents blame networking technology's shortcomings in Iraq on an outdated, vertical command and control systems model, when a horizontal model would have been more effective.