It’s Time to Fix the Command Post: Optimizing Headquarters’ Mobility, Survivability, and Interoperability for the Future Fight
Michael Greenberg | August 19, 2020
In the brief but devastating Battle of Zelenopillya in July 2014, Russian forces targeted several Ukrainian battalions with rocket artillery, conducting one of the largest artillery barrages on the European continent since World War II. The US Army took note of Russian sensor-to-shooter capabilities and recognized that conditions of the modern battlefield would require its brigade combat teams (BCTs) to find ways to mitigate this type of threat through improvements in mobility and survivability as well as a reduction in the signatures of BCT command posts and tactical assembly areas. If not, Army units risked the same consequences suffered by Ukrainian units at Zelenopillya: in minutes, their vehicles were almost all destroyed, thirty soldiers were killed, and hundred more wounded.
Six years later, it’s time to ask whether enough has been done to prepare Army units for the challenge.
What Has Been Done?
https://mwi.usma.edu/its-time-to-fix-the-command-post-optimizing-headquarters-mobility-survivability-and-interoperability-for-the-future-fight/
