Command control and communications outweigh missile numbers yet go unmeasured
Evidence
Even dynamic indicators pay little attention to factors that, while crucial, are particularly difficult to capture, such as command, control, and communications. The survival and efficiency of these systems would have an enormous impact on the way that any war could be fought and terminated—indeed a significant advantage on this dimension would more than outweigh a major disadvantage in numbers of missiles. But we know so little about how these systems would function in wartime that they do not figure in our assessments. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2609
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the theme from ‘How Not to Study War’ — that the most decisive factors are the ones models omit.
- QUESTION: Has the advent of cyberwarfare changed this assessment of command-control-communications being unmeasurable?