C2 Systems for PK Missions
March 31, 2025 9:11 am Leave your thoughtsEuropean states considering sending a force to Ukraine as part of a peace keeping (PK) mission are – rightly –... View Article
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Logistics and C2: Honesty, Truth and Pragmatism
March 10, 2025 8:00 am Leave your thoughts“And you should have seen the trucks on the road to Gabès. Those drivers were magnificent. All day and all... View Article
CIMIC and C2: Fit for the future?
February 10, 2025 12:06 pm Leave your thoughts“Today’s wars are not homogenous: the lived experience of combat is different between regions, parts of the fighting front, and... View Article
The Challenges of Nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3)
January 13, 2025 10:17 am Leave your thoughtsMilitaries – and some politicians – have a lot to say about command and control: usual regarding military operations but... View Article
MDO misses the target
December 10, 2024 4:30 pm Leave your thoughtsIt is perplexing to continue to read about Multi-Domain-Operations; a concept so confused and bifurcated that all attempts to clarify... View Article
High Command: Setting the Conditions
November 11, 2024 1:51 pm Leave your thoughtsIt comes as a surprise to many people that Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson did not command at the Battle of... View Article
Submarine Command and Control
October 4, 2024 11:15 am Leave your thoughtsImagine sitting on a battlefield blindfolded and trying to figure out what is happening with only your ears to guide... View Article
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
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