Strategic Command, Control and Communications
Author | : John J. Hamre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Command and control systems |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John J. Hamre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Command and control systems |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bruce Blair |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0815719507 |
During the past twenty-five years, U.S. strategists have argued that avoiding nuclear war depends on deterring a Soviet first strike by ensuring that U.S. forces could survive a surprise attack in numbers sufficient to inflict unacceptable damage in retaliation. U.S. military and political leaders have thus emphasized acquiring more powerful and accurate weaponry and providing better protection for it, while defense analysts have focused on assessing the relative strength and survivability of U.S. and Soviet forces. In the process neither has given sufficient attention to the vulnerability of the U.S. command, control, and communications system that would coordinate warning of an attack in progress and the response to it. In this study Bruce G. Blair examines accepted assumptions about mutual deterrence, force strength, and survivability, and concludes that the vulnerability of command, control, and communications not only precludes an effective retaliatory strike but also invites a preemptive Soviet first strike. After summarizing the assumptions and evaluative methodology behind mainstream strategic theory, the study describes the current decentralized command and control system that, under conditions of surprise attack, could be unable to communicate with decisionmakers or with units responsible for executing the decisions. Blair traces in detail the development of the system over three decades; the attempts to improve it through the use of procedural guidelines, alternative and redundant communications channels, and survival tactics; and the continuing vulnerabilities from improved Soviet weapons and the environmental forces engendered by massive nuclear detonations. Blair also analyzes the probable effects of proposals by the Reagan administration to strengthen command, control, and communications systems and provides recommendations for further strengthening and for altering related policies, deployments, and strategies to improve the stability of deterrence.
Author | : James J. Wirtz |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2022-06-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1647122457 |
he first overview of US NC3 since the 1980s, Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications explores the current NC3 system and its vital role in ensuring effective deterrence, contemporary challenges posed by cyber threats, new weapons technologies, and the need to modernize the United States’ Cold War–era system of systems.
Author | : Bruce G. Blair |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
After summarizing the assumptions and evaluative methodology behind mainstream strategic theory, the study describes the current decentralized command and control system that, under conditions of surprise attack, could be unable to communicate with decision makers or with units responsible for executing the decisions.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Command, Control, and Communications Panel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Command and control systems |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel F. Ford |
Publisher | : Holiday House |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1986-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780671622534 |
Author | : Valery E. Yarynich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Command and control systems |
ISBN | : |
This book discusses command and control of strategic nuclear weapons. Its goal is to facilitate cooperation in this field between official and independent experts in Russia, the United States and other countries, and to make these matters a subject of public discussion.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Command and control systems |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Eric Pearson |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1428990860 |
Perhaps the best single way to summarize it is to view the book as a bureaucratic or organizational history. What the author does is to take three distinct historical themes-organization, technology, and ideology and examine how each contributed to the development of WWMCCS and its ability (and frequent inability) to satisfy the demands of national leadership. Whereas earlier works were primarily descriptive, cataloguing the command and control assets then in place or under development, The book offers more analysis by focusing on the issue of how and why WWMCCS developed the way it did. While at first glance less provocative, this approach is potentially more useful for defense decision makers dealing with complex human and technological systems in the post-cold-war era. It also makes for a better story and, I trust, a more interesting read. By necessity, this work is selective. The elements of WWMCCS are so numerous, and the parameters of the system potentially so expansive, that a full treatment is impossible within the compass of a single volume. Indeed, a full treatment of even a single WWMCCS asset or subsystem-the Defense Satellite Communications System, Extremely Low Frequency Communications, the National Military Command System, to name but a few-could itself constitute a substantial work. In its broadest conceptualization, WWMCCS is the world, and my approach has been to deal with the head of the octopus rather than its myriad tentacles.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 1999-06-17 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0309064856 |
Rapid progress in information and communications technologies is dramatically enhancing the strategic role of information, positioning effective exploitation of these technology advances as a critical success factor in military affairs. These technology advances are drivers and enablers for the "nervous system" of the militaryâ€"its command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) systemsâ€"to more effectively use the "muscle" side of the military. Authored by a committee of experts drawn equally from the military and commercial sectors, Realizing the Potential of C4I identifies three major areas as fundamental challenges to the full Department of Defense (DOD) exploitation of C4I technologyâ€"information systems security, interoperability, and various aspects of DOD process and culture. The book details principles by which to assess DOD efforts in these areas over the long term and provides specific, more immediately actionable recommendations. Although DOD is the focus of this book, the principles and issues presented are also relevant to interoperability, architecture, and security challenges faced by government as a whole and by large, complex public and private enterprises across the economy.