INDUSTRY INSIGHT
Angus Long
Warsaw Pact. For years both the Warsaw Pact and NATO would flex military muscles, rattle sabres and seek to portray each other as the greater military force.
A This was known as the “Cold War” and thankfully
it never progressed to being a hot one. After the reunification of Germany and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat of WW3 diminished and NATO began to withdraw its military presence from Europe and all but a token presence remained by 2015.
In the mid 1980’s I had the honour of
serving in the military and for a while was stationed in the HQ of the British Army of Rhine (BAOR). Over the years, NATO would undergo many
manoeuvres and exercises where it would divide itself between Red forces (Warsaw Pact) and Blue forces (NATO), then practice going to war. The bullets may have been blanks and casualties abstract but to all intents and purposes the strategy, execution and outcomes were as authentic as they
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FTER THE END OF WW2, NATO forces were stationed in Germany as the first line of defence against threats of the then
Communication is the key to winning the war on Covid-19
could be without being real. Being in the command centre, I learned much by watching and listening to the senior officers planning their strategies and tactics, then ordering the various units and brigades to undertake them. There was a particular manoeuvre in 1987 that I’ll never forget. The General officer commanding was giving a post exercise debrief to the officers and soldiers of the HQ when he made it abundantly clear the single most important thing in winning a war is “communication”. It wasn’t the side with the most soldiers or the biggest guns, it was the side that made the best use of effective
communication that would eventually overcome and win. The General was
correct in saying good communication is the key to victory. There are many examples in history of where communication has been the principal cause for the eventual outcome of a particular battle or conflict. The clever miscommunication, to the German forces, on the location for the D-Day landings being one of the best examples of communication securing victory. In contrast, is the massacre of the “Charge of the Light Brigade” during the Crimean war. The
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