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The Command Element: Brain Center Of The MAGTF

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The Command Element (CE) serves as the brain center of the MAGTF. Its functions are naturally wide ranging. The CE is concerned with Command and Control (C2), Current Operations and Future Operations planning, rear area operations and security, supply and sustainment, as well as everything in between, across the entire range of military operations. However, just as the human brain cannot function effectively without a wide variety of optical, auditory, and tactile inputs, the CE is similarly restricted without all appropriate information. Perhaps no aspect of the CE is more important to the single-battle concept than the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets. This is not to downplay the necessity or importance of the

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