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Goldwater Nichols: Still fit for purpose?
Season 3 Episode 14
Most people in the C2 world who would acknowledge the Goldwater Nichols reforms of the US military as one of the big muscle movements in command and …
9 months ago
The Unfair Fight (HQ Corps job)
Season 3 Episode 13
It is the responsibility of the Corps level of command to set the conditions for a favourable and unfair fight at the tactical level: so says Major G…
10 months ago
Reality checking industry offerings for C2
Season 3 Episode 13
C2 systems litter headquarters – some have coalesced into a single machine, others spread across various apps, platforms, and systems. It's a growing…
11 months, 1 week ago
C2 for Urban Warfare
Season 3 Episode 11
Western militaries won't be able to do C2 in urban warfare scenarios well enough to prevail. So says Professor John Spencer, author, researcher, comm…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Insubordination
Season 3 Episode 10
Sometimes insubordination within the command chain actually works. Want an example? Take the infamous 1973 Yom Kippur War, when the divisional comman…
1 year ago
C2 and Peacekeeping
Season 3 Episode 9
Peace keeping missions (whether peace enforcement, peace building, peace making, or conflict prevention) are very different to the formatted hierarch…
1 year, 2 months ago
Professionals Talk Logistics
Season 3 Episode 8
The key principles of logistics might not have changed (Jomini's principles remain as valid as ever), but we have been lulled into false sense of ade…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ukrainian C2: Adaptation under fire
Season 3 Episode 7
The announcement in February 2025 of a restructuring of Ukrainian command and control went largely unnoticed in the West. It shouldn't have: the impl…
1 year, 4 months ago
CIMIC and C2
Season 3 Episode 7
Everyone understands that civil agencies and institutions do not operate in the same way as military organisations. The culture, aims, objectives, an…
1 year, 4 months ago
Nuclear Command and Control
Season 3 Episode 6
It's not a topic that is spoken about enough in the national security community: Nuclear Command and Control (NC2), and Communications (NC3) is a wor…
1 year, 5 months ago