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Suggest that this article mention that there are two principal types of military communications systems and networks: strategic (aka infrastructure) and tactical.
Military communications
Historically speaking there are several forms of military communication
- Verbal messaging
- Audio signaling
- Visual signaling
- By road
- By sea
- By naval signaling systems
- By semaphore
- By rail
- By air
- By telegraph
- By telephone (land line)
- By radio transmission
- By video transmission
- By satellite
- By optical cable
--Mrg3105 (talk) 00:46, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Redirects
I think we need a redirect to SIGINT from Radio reconnaissance and Radioelectronic reconnaissance (the calques from Russian ru:Радиоэлектронная разведка) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.133.184.254 (talk) 07:57, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Purpose of the Article
It appears this article is intended to be an overview. If so, it can be ordered into land-based, then sea-based and then air-based, if one wants to organize it chronologically. I'll see what I can dig up for good references. LTC (Ret.) David J. Cormier (talk) 15:10, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Jargon
This article also lapses into signal-specific jargon that may not be helpful to a civilian reader. Some of the assemblages mentioned are also outmoded. I'll see what I can dig up for fresher sources. If you aren't military-versant, please provide your perspective to help clean this up. LTC (Ret.) David J. Cormier (talk) 15:22, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Far too specific to "messaging"
In military terms military communications include supply lines and other forms of support. This article is weak itself within the covered subject but completely ignores the wider logistical communications aspects. Its topic should probably be a section in a full coverage piece or perhaps retitled. The "communications zone" or frequently in U.S. military terms "Zone of Communications" is that area between the combat zone and "Zone of the Interior" which is the manufacturing and economic base outside the active combat zone (though as in the case of Birtian in WW II such a base could be more than a bit "active"). At least in the mid 20th century such a zone was supposed to lie behind the combat zone where direct combat support activity would take place and a relatively safe zone where logistics activities from the zone of interior would be stored, transshipped or otherwise organized for movement toward the combat zone. Some quickly found extracts giving the idea:
The closest Wikipedia coverage, brief, is in Area of responsibility. Palmeira (talk) 18:35, 7 October 2013 (UTC)