Military Satellites

The photo above is an example of a VSAT system used by the US Armed Forces in the Middle East. Military satellite technology is a crucial component of modern defense systems. In regions of conflict, critical communications networks are often damaged by missile attacks, making it difficult for military and government personnel to take action. 

"Since some of the major military activities of the U.S. army is in foreign territories, the U.S. government needs to subcontract satellite services to foreign carriers headquartered in areas with favorable climate."

Military in combat

The primary reason for the existence of the military is to engage in combat, or “fighting,” a purposeful violent conflict meant to weaken, or establish dominance over the opposition, or to kill the opposition, or drive the opposition away from a location where it is not wanted or needed, should it be required to so by the national defence policy, and to win. This represents an organizational goal of any military, and the primary focus for military thought through military history, a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships.  

The “show” of military force has been a term that referred as much to military force projection, as to the units such as regiments (a title used by some military units) or gunboats, watercrafts designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies, deployed--the movement of armed forces and their logical support infrastructure around the world--in a particular theatre, part an aggregate of such forces.

In the Persian Gulf War, codenamed “Operation Desert Storm” commonly referred to as simply the “Gulf War,” a war waged by a UN-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait, the United States Central Command (“USCENTCOM”), a theater-level Unified Combatant Command of the US Department of Defense, established in 1983, controlled “military forces” (units) of each of the four military services of the United States. How victory (a term, originally applied to warfare, given to success achieved in personal combat, after military operations in general or, by extension, in any competition) is achieved, and what shape it assumes is studied by most, if not all, military groups on three levels.

Source: Military in combat

What are the operations in a military organization?

While capability development is about enabling the military--“combat readiness” is a condition of the armed forces and their constituent units and formations, warships, aircraft, weapon systems or other military technology and equipment to perform during combat military operations, or functions consistently with the purpose for which they are organized or designed, or the managing of resources and personnel training in preparation for combat--to perform its functions and roles in: executing the defence policy; how personnel and their equipment are used in engaging the enemy, a combat between two forces, neither larger than a division and not smaller than a company, in which each has an assigned or perceived mission; winning battles, generally, a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed force or combatants; successfully concluding campaigns, which in the military sciences, applies to a large scale, long duration, significant military strategy plan incorporating a series of inter-related military operations or battles forming a distinct part of a larger conflict often called a war; and eventually the war, an organized armed, and, often, a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. All of it is under the responsibility of military operations.

Military operations oversees: the policy interpretation into military operation plans (also called a “war plan” before World War II), a formal plan for military armed forces, their military organizations and units to conduct operations, as drawn up by commanders within the combat operations process in achieving objectives before or during a conflict; allocation of capability to specific strategic, operational and tactical goals and objectives, or the immediate short term desired result of  a given activity, task or mission, usually entrusted to the lower positioned management in a three-tier organization’s organization’s structure of field or front desk, middle and executive management--a strategic military goal is used in strategic planning to define desired end-state of a war or a campaign; engage in posture of the armed forces; the interaction of Combat Arms (a collective name in a system of administrative military reference to those troops within national armed forces which participate in direct tactical land combat), Combat Support Arms and Combat Support Support Services during combat operations; defining of military missions and tasks--the “Universal Joint Task List,” more commonly known as “UJTL,”  is a comprehensive list of possible military tasks at the strategic, operational and (joint) tactical level of war--during the conduct of combat; management of military prisoners and military civil affairs; and the military occupation of enemy territory, an effective provisional control of  a certain power over a territory which is not under the formal sovereignty of that entity, without the volition of the actual sovereign, seizure of captured equipment, and maintenance of civil order in the territory under its responsibility.

Throughout the combat operations process, undertaken by armed forces during the military campaigns, major operations, battles, and engagements to facilitate the settling of objectives, direction of combat, and assessment of the operation plan’s success, and during the lulls in combat combat military intelligence provides reporting on the status of plan completion and its correlation with desired, expected and achieved satisfaction of policy fulfillment.

See: Wireless/Mobile Backhaul

What is military logistics?

A military is an organization authorized by its greater society to use lethal force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or perceived threats. On the other hand, logistics is the management of the flow of resources, between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet some requirements, i.e. of customers or corporations. When these words are combined--military logistics--it is the discipline of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of military forces.

In its most comprehensive sense, it is those aspects or military operations that deal with: design, development acquisition (the bureaucratic management and procurement process dealing with a nations investments in the technologies, programs, and product support necessary to achieve its national security strategy and support its armed forces), storage, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of material, a term used in English to refer to the equipment and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management; transport of personnel; acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation, and disposition of facilities; acquisition or furnishing of services; and, medical and health service support.

See: Mobile Backhaul Solutions

Australian teleports support mission critical communications in the Middle East

Proactive Communications (PCI) is a US-based systems integrator providing the necessary communications solutions for government personnel in the Middle East. Since much of the region remains prone to war and other civil conflict, many terrestrial communications network have been or can be damaged or destroyed. 

What PCI did was to get the services of a teleport facility to provide satellite communications to the Middle East. NewSat was the chosen operator for this service, since being based in Australia, their Perth teleport facility was not subject to climatic conditions which could hamper the transmission of critical and sensitive data to the military troops in the Middle East. 

Geographically speaking, Australia's location is not only perfect because minimal rainfall results to minimal latency, but also becomes it provides optimal look-angle to the Middle East.

Watch the video above where Marc Legare, CEO discuss why PCI chose NewSat to provide mission critical satellite communications to his US military customers.

You might also want to read:

• Thales Alenia Space wins MILSATCOM study contract with France