Communications training -- the key to victory? The history of warfare is littered with episodes in which communications -- or the lack of them -- have determined the outcome of a battle. In the days when messages were delivered by runners or horsemen, the failure to get vital information through could be excused, while signalling by flags, bugles or lamps later improved the chances of conveying instructions.

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Communications training -- the key to victory? The history of warfare is littered with episodes in which communications -- or the lack of them -- have determined the outcome of a battle. In the days when messages were delivered by runners or horsemen, the failure to get vital information through could be excused, while signalling by flags, bugles or lamps later improved the chances of conveying instructions.

So the advent of radio should have removed the uncertainty of battlefield communications once and for all. But on today's digital battlefield the hazards of communications are hardly much less than in the days of the human messenger. An enemy's ability to detect, pinpoint and unscramble messages underlines the need to train radio ...

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