In the military term, a operating room is made up with an aim of highest ensuring the coordination of the actions at the strategic level of groups of Armée S with important size.
The manner clausewitzienne of carrying out the great battles, valid until the 19th century, was exceeded at the 20th century by the globalized appearance of the World war. The operating room thus becomes the operational place for highest graded État-major in times of Conflit.
First World War
planning: Before 1916, the interallied command does not appear for the Allies. The Exchanges act on faces distinct in the majority from the cases.
August 1st
Second world war
Logistics, transport, even the intensity of the Effort of war are planned by the top-ranking executives civil and graded starting from the increase obtained in these places.
The Blitz, undergone in a battle letting appear a considerable numerical inferiority in the English camp, was held thanks to the operational coordination of the airfields coupled with the tactical use of the Radar.
On the face of the East, planning by the OKWH of the operation Citadelle and the countermeasure by the Soviet généralissimes required such rooms, in what was going to become the most important confrontation of armoured tanks on the numerical level ever carried out for the Army. The information played full in anticipation with the movements of the enemy on projecting who became enormous on the chart.
Large the naval battles of the Campagnes of the Pacific was also initiated in these remote places, whose existence was made possible by progress of the quantified télétransmission; coordination on such widened spaces obliging the strategists and admirals to move and mobilize the air and sea groups at the good place from the point of view of research of engagement.
Once found peace, the logistics of the tasks was transferred in the space field with the operating rooms deciding from launching from the rockets and vessels in Houston (eccentric of the site of launching of NASA), Kourou and Baïkonour (to read the article space Conquête).
In company (contemporary time)
War Room proves to be a formidable tool of division structured of information. It is used more and more to coordinate:- competing research or market
- the launching of new products
- Of the promotion campaigns
- Of the projects of acquisition
- Of the internal actions (reduction of the costs, total quality 6 sigma…)
- establishment of new computing systems
- the conquest of invitations to tender
- the commercial penetration of territories
- etc
In policy
Bill Clinton would have used successfully War Room to plan her first election with the presidency of the United States. See film of 1993 The WarRoom.
In works of fiction
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Final of Doctor Folamour or: '' how I learned how more to make me and like the bomb '' of it, by Stanley Kubrick
- room of admiralty in the film Thirteen days: operational coordination of a Blockade of Soviet bound for Cuba (historical article).
See too
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