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Piercing the fog of war via battlespace management

30th August 2024 - 19:02 GMT | by ​Neil Thompson in London

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BMS can provide commanders with more confidence in making timely data-driven decision-making. (Photo: US Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Colton Brownlee)

Battle Management Systems are emerging as increasingly important tools for commanders making decisions in fluid combat situations.

As modern battlefields become increasingly automated and transparent to combatants with access to digital tools, planning and executing military operations with greater precision has become ever easier.

It has also created an overwhelming amount of information for modern militaries to deal with, however, which threatens to flood troops and commanders alike in superfluous data. As a result, defence firms have created Battle Management Systems (BMS) which are emerging as important tools in the modern digital battlespace, enabling commanders to network better with their units and speed up responses to fluid combat situations.

BMS tools also function as command or operator

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Neil Thompson is a freelance journalist for Shephard and other publishers. He currently works as …

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