The Effects of Strategic Communication Principles on C2 Agility, Complexity/Uncertainty, and C2 Maturity
Abstract
The complex endeavours faced by NATO in the 21st century require the creation of coalitions that include military and non-military actors. Additionally, these challenges are expected to emerge in increasingly volatile, uncertain, highly dynamic, and complex environments encompassing political, military, economic, information, and infrastructure dimensions. Some certain types of less understood and less predictable interdependent variables complicate those environments and make difficult the selection of the appropriate C2 Approach and the transition from one to another. On the other hand, the Strategic Communication Concept (SCC) provides executers with valuable instruments to create shared understanding, awareness and intent among the contributing entities and to decrease the obscurity of this socially complex and globally interconnected environment. This study employs strategic communication principles on C2 Agility components and variables of complex environments that are described in NATO NEC C2 Maturity Model. The findings indicate that the methods of strategic communication strengthen the components of C2 Agility and provide HQs with a suitable environment to operate in and facilitate the execution of the appropriate C2 Approach within the correspondent C2 Maturity Level. The study also offers an alternative C2 Maturity depiction encompassing all elements of the maturity model.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2014
- Accession Number
- ADA606894
Entities
People
- Sahin Ciplak
- Talip Guler