Command and Control : Use It or Lose It?

By Von Hippel, Frank

Book Id: WPLBN0000013976
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.8 MB
Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Command and Control : Use It or Lose It?
Author:	Von Hippel, Frank
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
Collections:	Government Library Collection
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Excerpt: Nothing ought to be of more concern to arms controllers than the growing disproportion between the extraordinarily good ability to command, control, and communicate (C’) with strategic forces before they are attacked, and the very poor ability thereafter. A nation that strikes first with strategic forces does so with its command structure, control mechanisms, and communication devices wholly intact, alerted and ready. Each and every telephone line, satellite, and antennae is functioning and every relevant person is alive and well. By contrast, the nation which seeks to launch a retaliatory attack may find its chain of command highly disrupted, its telephone lines dead, its satellites inoperative, its radio signals interfered with, and its communications officers out of action...

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