US Marines are training to break up and move their command posts to survive a Pacific war

US Marines practiced working with dispersed and mobile command and control in the Pacific. The concept builds on lessons that command nodes need to be spread out, concealed, and easy to relocate. Russia's war in Ukraine is showing the vulnerabilities of fixed high-value targets. US Marines have been rehearsing how to spread out and relocate their command and control in the vast Indo-Pacific region, while still maintaining the ability to make battlefield decisions quickly. Modern conflicts have shown that large, centralized command posts are vulnerable to enemy detection and attack. The US and other Western militaries are learning that their command-and-control networks will need to be dispersed, concealed, and capable of being moved quickly to survive.

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