Command and control: the sociotechnical perspective

Military command and control is not merely evolving, it is co-evolving.

Technology is creating new opportunities for different types of command and control, and new types of command and control are creating new aspirations for technology.

The question is how to manage this process, how to achieve a jointly optimised blend of socio and technical and create the kind of agility and self-synchronisation that modern forms of command and control promise.

The answer put forward in this book is to re-visit sociotechnical systems theory.

In doing so, the problems of 21st century command and control can be approached from an alternative, multi-disciplinary and above all human-centred perspective.