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NetWork Centric Warfare (NCW) is a notion that frequently appears recently in various publications and considerations relating to development trends and evolution of conducting operations. Today together with technological progress, there emerge more and more sophisticated ways of conducting warfare based most of all on knowledge and appropriate understanding of phenomena taking place in the operations’ environment. Information - its acquisition, analysis and transmission - becomes the key to success. All this linked by technology gives the picture of the range and net-centric capabilities. The introduction of the article features the idea of Network Centric Warfare. There the author explains the importance of key net-centric notions such as Network Centric Warfare, operations or the net-centric idea. In the further part of the article the author presents goals that net-centric operations lead to, for instance deep cooperation, independence in operation or understanding the guiding principle. Then the determinants of conducting net-centric operations in J. Kręcikij's approach were defined. Here several terms were explained such as tendency to gain Information Superiority, acquire access to information, due to the needs of command level, a fast cycle of command, self-synchronisation and many others. The final part of the article shows features that differentiate net-centric operations and Polish Armed Forces ’ capabilities to implement NCW principles and includes a short characteristics of the current state and measures that must be taken in order to achieve full net-centric capabilities. The need to implement NCW solutions is stressed in the conclusions.