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command and control

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Also known as C2

military exercise of authority by a commanding officer over assigned forces

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Encyclopedic overview

A watchstander at her station in the combat information center of USS Carl Vinson in 2001

Command and control (abbr. C2) is a "set of organizational and technical attributes and processes ... [that] employs human, physical, and information resources to solve problems and accomplish missions" to achieve the goals of an organization or enterprise, according to a 2015 definition by military scientists Marius Vassiliou, David S. Alberts, and Jonathan R. Agre.

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