By Clyde Seepersad, Senior Vice President, General Manager Linux Foundation Education
Special Warfare Magazine, Summer/Fall 2024 | Volume 37, Issue 2
Recently, I had a conversation with a Marine working on air-gapped, edge cloud solutions in the field. He pointed out that the military is focused on building IT workflows and tools that save time because, on the battlefield, time equals lives.
Since the Art of War was penned more than 2,500 years ago, militaries have sought the means to establish battlefield superiority to save lives and conquer the enemy. Today, the battlefield is less a plane and more of a sphere. We continue to have traditional boots-on-the-ground battlefields, but now every electronic device in every business, piece of infrastructure, and home around the world represents a potential virtual combat zone. Add space as a theatre of operations to this virtual combat zone and the volatilities, complexities, and ambiguities increase exponentially.
