Question time
In this final episode of series one, Vice Admiral Andy Burns, Major General Zac Stenning and Andrew Graham answered questions from the audience on command and control live at the DSEi event in London....
20 Sep 202346min
Confidence and The Initiative
People lie at the heart of any C2 complex – both those in command and their HQ staff, as well as those at the gritty end of an orders process. Beyond the dry doctrinal definitions of command and contr...
6 Sep 202345min
AI in C2
Everyone seems to be talking about how Artificial Intelligence inside HQs will revolutionise command and control. The issue is that we don't even seem to have an agreed definition of AI, and the pol a...
23 Aug 202341min
Familiarity ≠ Trust
Trust has always been a central concept in military command and control: it can be based on a 'Band of Brothers' construct or something a bit more complex with allies and partners. Yet this human-to-h...
9 Aug 202340min
A New Orders Process
In 'How to Win' rather than 'How to Operate' in a peer or near peer war, time is vital and the ability to share commands (orders) faster than an adversary becomes a critical function of campaigning. T...
26 Jul 202341min
What makes a great commander?
It is not hard to identify the great (and successful) commanders across history – and it turns out they have a few things in common. But what has changed with the advent of control measures into the C...
12 Jul 202341min
Adaptation under fire
Command and control in war is very different to peacetime plans: and then C2 that works well for defensive operations will not necessarily be optimised for offense. The Western experiences of Afghanis...
28 Jun 202339min
The Quest for Certainty
Martin van Creveld talked about command being about the 'Quest for Certainty', in order to make the right decisions. But there is, according to Mick Ryan, also a fallacy in certainty. It is a myth tha...
14 Jun 202338min
