Information Explosion
Thanks to advances in communications technology, which is reliant on access to radio spectrum, the military's dependence on its ability to move data on the battlefield has grown exponentially. If this need were measured by the capacity to transfer words in a minute, the growth in recent years would be astronomical.
| World War I: | 30 words per minute |
| World War II: | 60 words per minute |
| Vietnam War: | 100 words per minute |
| Gulf War: | 192,000 words per minute |
| Future War 2010: | 1.5 trillion words per minute |
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