C5I

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C5I is a military (primarily Naval) acronym describing the core capabilities involved in

  • Detecting pertinent military or civil activity
  • Analyzing the intent or impact of the activity upon friendly forces
  • Disseminating the activity and analysis to friendly forces
  • Providing engagement orders to friendly units to interact, neutralize, or destroy
  • Engaging hostile forces with weapons
  • Capture and analyze battle damage assessment information

The "C5" part of the term summarizes four words that begin with the letter "C" — "Command", "Control", "Communications", and "Computers", and "Combat systems". The "I" portion refers to "Intelligence".

Military theorists previously used similar terms, which accounted for fewer factors.

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