This paper is a short overview of computer systems used by the military from 1930 to the present. Since it is short, the paper is very superficial and contains no technical data. This puts the paper into the general interest domain, in which it suffers from numerous acronyms being used without definition. Also, the paper consistently references computers by name without identifying why they were significant to the history of computing.

The paper does not pursue the relationship of various military systems with each other, or with the more commonly known commercial systems of the day. The authors also do not show how these systems influenced today’s computer architectures as they claimed they would do. This paper would be useful only to readers experienced in military systems, and then only of moderate interest to that audience.