The US military is currently in the process of ensuring that they won't have to do this again in the next war. There's a whole alphabet soup of DoD programs to expand their communications capabilities: Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion (FCW article), Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite system (Fed of Amer Scientists site), Joint Tactical Radio System (Army site) and more.
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The US military is currently in the process of ensuring that they won't have to do this again in the next war. There's a whole alphabet soup of DoD programs to expand their communications capabilities: Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion (FCW article), Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite system (Fed of Amer Scientists site), Joint Tactical Radio System (Army site) and more.