Recent U.S. Marine Corps deployments deep into Afghanistan for operation Enduring Freedom have demonstrated the service's growing digitalization. As troops disembarked to locations far from their amphibious ships, connectivity was maintained through a variety of mobile communications systems. On the tactical level, Marines used battlefield intranets to coordinate operations and send digital imagery to their commanders in near real time. The landing of two Marine expeditionary units (MEU's) at Camp Rhino and the Kandahar airport in November 2001 demonstrated the Corps' high mobility and the capability of its command, control, communications and computer (C4) systems. By deploying farther inland than...