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Perspectives on Command and Control: Implications for Capability Development and Assessment  

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Per Wikberg, Magdalena Granåsen, Björn Johansson

Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI

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Paper #41, 26th ICCRTS

Startbild med låst stillebenbild. Finns 7 olika varianter i mallen.

Foto: Försvarsmakten/David Gernes

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What is Command and Control?

  • Structure of functions,
  • Decision-making,
  • Leadership,
  • Expertise,
  • Learning and change,
  • Politics, power and conflict,
  • Social construct

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It’s a fan

It’s a rope

It’s a wall

It’s a spear

It’s a snake

It’s a tree

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An overview of the multiperspectiveness of research on C2 and to unveil assumptions sometimes taken for granted.

A. General research

B. C2 practice

and research

C. Assessment and development of C2 capability

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C2 as structure of functions

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C2 as decision-making

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C2 as leadership

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C2 as expertise

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C2 as learning and change

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C2 as politics, conflict and power

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C2 as a social construct

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Discussion

  • Reflecting on the purpose
    • Enrich the discussion
  • The classification scheme
    • Mutually exclusive and exhaustive?
  • A grand theory of C2?
  • Future work
    • NATO RTG 342 “C2 Capability Governance

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Thank you for your attention

wikberg@foi.se