I recently read a New York Times article about Ukraine’s use of a relatively new such system called Delta, which is a battlefield management system. It has made them much more effective.
They are using it to determine when and where to attack or defend and also amass information about their Russian enemy’s deployments of troops, supplies and equipment.
As emergency managers we have the same goal to find out what a disaster has done or is doing, so that we can respond appropriately with people, supplies and equipment.
The battlefield situation is not quite as static as we might have in responding to a disaster, but there are many similarities to the situations we face.
