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The quadruplet of warning, command-control, communications and weapons systems forms a closely-knit overall system which supports the national command authorities, the President and the Secretary of Defense. While the early warning (EW), command-and-control (C2), communications (C) and weapons (W) systems were developed along traditional vertical military departmental lines, with limited horizontal capabilities, the pressures have mounted since World War II for a common management of assets across military lines. Since 1971, the intertying of systems has evolved from a consolidation of individual service systems into an integrated broadly-based overall system of EW, C2, C and W elements. Fig. 8.1 shows the major systems in their interrelationships and in their relationship to the threat (T).

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Constant, J.N. (1981). Command Control and Communications. In: Fundamentals of Strategic Weapons. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0649-6_8

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