Centralized Control / Decentralized Execution
Centralized Control
1. Centralized control is authoritative airpower and should be consummate by an Airman at a commander level by keeping a concentration on the joint force commander’s (JFC’s) objectives to direct, incorporate, prioritize, plan, organize, and evaluate the utiliztion of air, space, and cyberspace assets in any eventuality across the range of operations. Centralized control authorizes the air component commander to respond to variations in the operational environment and take advantage of fleeting opportunities
2. Centralized control allows the Air commander to plan, organize, and control the sovereign and direct-support actions of air forces in such a manner to meet that the aims …show more content…
In all cases, commanders equalize the overall operation, or when the operational scenerio demands tighter control over selected missions due to political sensitivities, such as the potential for execution against the pressing need for tactical effectiveness. As far as subordinate’s decision supports the superior commander’s decision and meets operation objectives.
Significance of Situational Awareness
9. The ability of technology to apparently augment the situational awareness and apprise decision making has enhanced exponentially over the past decade. Data links, Internet relay chat, satellite communications, and full-motion video feeds are among some of the tools available to commanders at all levels.
Centralized Control / Decentralized Execution implementation
10. In joint-air C2 with shared understanding, the modules should function as a system instead of as individual portion running discretely. Centralized control / decentralized execution without a full outlook links to a “corps commander telling a sergeant how to put his troops in a foxhole” perhaps not the most efficient way to fight. To determine how this works, we would do well to analyse the relevance of Col John Boyd’s theories of the observe, orient, decide, act (OODA) …show more content…
Operational flexibility is a comparatively new term. It represents coordinating operations to maximize the effectiveness of airpower through the range of military operations. The mission of an air and space expeditionary task force (AETF) commander in Afghanistan as an additive C2 echelon to the theater CFACC. It provides the joint task force (JTF) commander in Afghanistan an air commander with authority over air assets, thus significantly supporting unity of effort by giving the JTF commander a voice.
12. The AETF commander is logically placed to harmonize C2 within Afghanistan because of the commander’s proximity to the fight. In contrast, during high-intensity clash, more centralized control may be required to sustain a theater outlook and to take advantage of airpower’s attributes of speed, flexibility, and mass. Similarly, more centralization may prove essential in operations with strategic influence, exclusively when political issues demand that operational and strategic decision makers maintain flexibility or lessen
Centralized Control
1. Centralized control is authoritative airpower and should be consummate by an Airman at a commander level by keeping a concentration on the joint force commander’s (JFC’s) objectives to direct, incorporate, prioritize, plan, organize, and evaluate the utiliztion of air, space, and cyberspace assets in any eventuality across the range of operations. Centralized control authorizes the air component commander to respond to variations in the operational environment and take advantage of fleeting opportunities
2. Centralized control allows the Air commander to plan, organize, and control the sovereign and direct-support actions of air forces in such a manner to meet that the aims …show more content…
In all cases, commanders equalize the overall operation, or when the operational scenerio demands tighter control over selected missions due to political sensitivities, such as the potential for execution against the pressing need for tactical effectiveness. As far as subordinate’s decision supports the superior commander’s decision and meets operation objectives.
Significance of Situational Awareness
9. The ability of technology to apparently augment the situational awareness and apprise decision making has enhanced exponentially over the past decade. Data links, Internet relay chat, satellite communications, and full-motion video feeds are among some of the tools available to commanders at all levels.
Centralized Control / Decentralized Execution implementation
10. In joint-air C2 with shared understanding, the modules should function as a system instead of as individual portion running discretely. Centralized control / decentralized execution without a full outlook links to a “corps commander telling a sergeant how to put his troops in a foxhole” perhaps not the most efficient way to fight. To determine how this works, we would do well to analyse the relevance of Col John Boyd’s theories of the observe, orient, decide, act (OODA) …show more content…
Operational flexibility is a comparatively new term. It represents coordinating operations to maximize the effectiveness of airpower through the range of military operations. The mission of an air and space expeditionary task force (AETF) commander in Afghanistan as an additive C2 echelon to the theater CFACC. It provides the joint task force (JTF) commander in Afghanistan an air commander with authority over air assets, thus significantly supporting unity of effort by giving the JTF commander a voice.
12. The AETF commander is logically placed to harmonize C2 within Afghanistan because of the commander’s proximity to the fight. In contrast, during high-intensity clash, more centralized control may be required to sustain a theater outlook and to take advantage of airpower’s attributes of speed, flexibility, and mass. Similarly, more centralization may prove essential in operations with strategic influence, exclusively when political issues demand that operational and strategic decision makers maintain flexibility or lessen