You Can’t Jam Commander’s Intent

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗝𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁.

If every radio in your unit went silent at 0600 tomorrow, what would your platoons do by noon?

Last Thursday it was the fuel point. Last night it was the rear area. Tonight it’s the radio.

In the next fight, every radio, drone link, and GPS signal in your formation will be contested. Expect it on day one.

With Blackhorse OPFOR at NTC, we beat rotational units about 3 to 1 at about 40 percent strength. Within hours of every rotation, we pinpointed CPs, and had capabilities to Jam.

A unit that needs the net to function stops functioning when the net goes down.

So train it that way:
– Train with comms degraded from the first hour.
– Give a simple intent, then go quiet. Watch what LTs and SGTs do with it.
– Push strike authority down, with the target list agreed before the jamming starts.
– In the AAR, ask what they did when no one answered, not how clean the reports were.

This week at Hohenfels, 1st Armored Division Soldiers worked a Skydio X10 drone and a VMAX electronic warfare system into Combined Resolve training. Good. Now point EW at our own nets and run the next lane jammed.

Expect the pacing threat to go after our coms links first, TRAIN THAT WAY! The answer can’t be a better radio alone. It has to be leaders who already know what right looks like when the screen goes dark.

Run the next lane jammed. #USArmy

— Raise the Black (@KTB_500) October 29, 2026