Synchronisation and Mission Command
August 27, 2024 7:55 am Leave your thoughtsThere is an unresolved tension between the ethos of mission command (delegation of command to the lowest appropriate level), and... View Article
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Better Political Decision-Making Takes Time
July 29, 2024 8:52 am Leave your thoughtsA recent discussion with former NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer made it clear that effective civil-military relationships –... View Article
The commander and the BS detector
July 1, 2024 2:47 pm Leave your thoughtsIt seems likely that AI will provide the military commander with more options, advice, and courses of action (COAs) in... View Article
NATO C2 – Enough of the Mediocrity
November 24, 2023 1:15 pm Leave your thoughtsPlacing 140 diverse experts, commanders, scientists, technologists, psychologists, scholars and operators in a room for three days to talk about... View Article
The Theory of Surprise
October 18, 2023 4:25 pm Leave your thoughtsOne of the core requirements of manoeuvre theory is the need for surprise. It is only when this facet is... View Article
C2 and Trust
August 17, 2023 6:49 pm Leave your thoughtsTrust has always been a central concept in military command and control: it can be based on a ‘Band of... View Article
Orders, Planning, and Resources
August 2, 2023 2:37 pm Leave your thoughtsPlanning processes change rapidly during combat operations: if they don’t alter to reflect the context, the needs, and the pace... View Article
JADC2: Better or just Faster?
July 19, 2023 12:34 pm Leave your thoughtsOver the past five years, the idea of Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) has gained popular acclaim with... View Article
Talking softly and carrying a big stick
July 11, 2023 8:19 pm Leave your thoughtsOn stepping down as 38th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General David Berger leaves a USMC ready for... View Article
Fighting as an organism (not an organisation)
July 7, 2023 5:27 pm Leave your thoughts“The Task Force failed to respond sufficiently to the complex environment and began to sub-divide into two C2 structures: official... View Article