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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.

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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:

• This reaction alone should well support the contention that the front-behind-the front is a theater of operations in its own right. No longer is it appropriate to treat this zone as a stepchild or to regard it merely as the zone of communications in the traditional sense.

• "zone of communications," which is the second constituent part of a theater of military operations

• Those states or groups will be equipped with small quantities of modern mass destruction weapons, and sometimes the theater will not be clearly determined. The next two decades, are low intensity conflicts against rogue states or against terrorist conflict environment will include mostly urban or mountainous areas. The tragedy that happened in New York on September 11, 2001 shows that unexpected methods can be used everywhere, and that sensitive areas, like the homeland and the zone of communications, can be targeted.

The closest Wikipedia coverage, brief, is in Area of responsibility. Palmeira (talk) 18:35, 7 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"The first military communications tool was the communication automobile designed by the Soviet Union in 1934 to send and receive signals."

The FIRST tool? EVER? In 1934? I'm not sure what this passage is meant to convey (or I would fix it myself) but obviously there were many, many "communications tools" before 1934. 24.189.13.87 (talk) 11:28, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I modified this spurious claim, but I'd like to see the documentation supporting it, and figure out what the writer intended. LTC (Ret.) David J. Cormier (talk) 14:48, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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