The opposite is true, actually. Imagine dealing with thousands of incoming data streams from spies, communication intercepts, and battlefield reports without th

The opposite is true, actually. Imagine dealing with thousands of incoming data streams from spies, communication intercepts, and battlefield reports without the aid of computers. You have a classic needle-in-a-haystack data discovery problem. Being able to communicate to your entire intelligence apparatus "hey send me everything you see about OMAHA or SWORD" might get you hundreds of small pieces of intel that would be too trivial to forward to command alone - but taken together could have laid out the entire battle plan.