COMMAND AND CONTROL FOR SELECTIVE RESPONSE

Abstract

During the past several years, there has been a growing awareness that an effective strategic capability requires more than survivable forces, some warning and defensive capability, and a plan and resolve to employ these resources. It also depends upon a command capability whereby national political or military leaders can operate or control the resources according to the plan. This recognition has caused new emphasis to be placed on the problem of command and control. This chapter considers command and control in the conduct of two different strategies of central nuclear war: first, a spasm war that unleashes an unlimited nuclear strike as quickly and thoroughly as possible; second, a strategy of selected response that allows deliberate commitment of small, moderate, or very large portions of the strategic offensive capacity of the United States in accordance with both military and political considerations. The command and control required for conduct of limited strategic war is then considered in relation to these two alternatives.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 13, 1963
Accession Number
AD0406949

Entities

People

  • Herbert D. Benington

Organizations

  • System Development Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Civil Defense
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Defense Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Tactical Warning
  • United States
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control