The article links to Army Doctrine. I am surprised to find it open to people outside of army.
Does anyone perhaps know if there is resource like this for Army communication? I would be most interested in not combat communication where they have to give orders, but maybe where they have more time to share opinions down and up the hierarchy, maybe garher intel.
I think it could be useful to management science, but havent found anyone trying to icorpate defense learnings into management
The the majority of the US Army’s (and most other DoD branches and agencies) regulations and doctrine are unclassified and available to the public. You can probably search most of the relevant publications you want at armypubs.army.mil.
I don’t believe it is behind an authentication wall.
My personal favorite (which IIRC I first saw posted here on HN) is ATP 3-18.13: SPECIAL FORCES USE OF PACK ANIMALS
On top of useful information about a llama's ideal body temperature and the amount of water that a camel needs every day, it contains gems like this:
Elephants are not the easygoing, kind, loving creatures that people believe them to be. They are, of course, not evil either. They simply follow their biological pattern, shaped by evolution.
> Elephants are not the easygoing, kind, loving creatures that people believe them to be.
Do people actually think that? My experience with wild African elephants is that your best course of action is to walk softly, keep your distance, and don't piss them off. They're scary, and smart. When they look you in the eye, they very clearly are saying, "I can crush you like a bug, little one". Our Land Cruiser got charged by a pissed off cow one afternoon. Her tusk went through the rear sheet metal of the car, and lifted the rear wheels off the ground.
I've ridden elephants before, and I would be very hesitant to even approach them, let alone load them down with cargo, without an experienced handler supervising everything.
I would likewise be interested in communication systems that are social systems rather than tech systems (I.e. what do you do when phone/internet systems collapse?) Though I suppose that is probably only appropriate for an insurgency as you would have/use radio tech…
> I.e. what do you do when phone/internet systems collapse?
I suspect the wired network in a city to be quite strong actually, since most of it is buried. For sure, you'd have lost connectivity to the rest of the world and internet, but setting-up a local telephone network using the copper wire network still standing doesn't sound that hard actually!
Does anyone perhaps know if there is resource like this for Army communication? I would be most interested in not combat communication where they have to give orders, but maybe where they have more time to share opinions down and up the hierarchy, maybe garher intel.
I think it could be useful to management science, but havent found anyone trying to icorpate defense learnings into management