Situation Officer as a Decisive Enabler, Theoretical Framework to Analyse Information Flows and Action

This paper delves in the world of combat information flow. We are introducing a concept called “situation officer”. The task of situation officer is to release commanding and planning officers from the burden of masses of not so necessarily relevant detailed data and information thus leaving more time and thinking space to their main duties. On the other hand, situation officer is releasing necessary information to subunits to fulfil their tasks. We assume that via realizing the concept of situation officer the planning and decision-making cycle will be shortened and directing mutual information resources will be more effective thus giving better opportunities to perform activities more precisely both temporally and spatially. In this paper, we introduce one approach to the theoretical basis of information flowing, and the concept of situation officer