The main advantages of using IRC over radio comms is that: * It's way more reliable than radio comms (you don't need to ask people to repeat everything all the

The main advantages of using IRC over radio comms is that: * It's way more reliable than radio comms (you don't need to ask people to repeat everything all the time, you read your grids right the first time). * It's concurrent, you can have multiple units reporting at the same time. * It's buffered, you can skip stuff and come back to it later. * It's cheap, anybody can get a window opened on the current ops and see what's going on, without needing all the hardware of a radio. * It makes the reporting very fast. * It makes collation/data collection much easier. * It's scriptable, you can automate the collection of some messages, or the emission of some others. They got that integrated at pretty much every level, and I think it's one of the most enabling thing available right now for C2C nodes, in many armies (not just US).