The author portrays his experience with networked/interlinked action in the field of international security politics from a governmental and legislative point of view. Intensified cooperation became an irrefutable guiding principle for the increasingly complex crisis interventions during the pre-millennium years. But the concept of Networked Security, which the German government introduced in 2006, is still contested among NGOs. Overall, critics claim that the concept is more rhetoric than substance. Against this background the author discusses several attempts that have been launched to advance cooperation, looks at drivers and obstacles of inter-agency cooperation, and submits concrete proposals to reasonably advance the principle of Networked Security in practice.