Military communications can go back as pre-history to the present, but what is military communication? We can say that it is the exchange of information, command, and orders of Commanders to subordinates. If we reference Army Doctrinal Reference Publication 6-22 (Army Leadership) Interpersonal tact paragraphs 5-11 to 5-29 summarized as being aware of how you project to others and sensing how to communicate effectively and being capable of understanding interactions with other. This points out the purpose of interpersonal communication is an essential factor in the Military communication effectiveness.
It might not seem important but often underestimated, but if I give you a definition of Interpersonal communication it becomes clearer. Let’s say interpersonal communication is the process in which a person exchanges messages it can be verbal or non-verbal. When it comes to interacting with people theirs four forms that break down as verbal, listening, written and non-verbal these are used in Military communication, for example; verbal and listening used when a formation is called, written is used when you are issued an order or get a counseling done and an example of non- verbal can be when we use a signal to ground guide.
Military communication uses verbal communication on a more regular basis it is the auditory language this one includes words, sounds, and speech this monitors the pitch, volume, and tone they all contribute to effective verbal communication. Also we have nonverbal communication this one can be interpreted through facial expression, gestures, visual cues, body movement, and anything else that communicates without speaking. For the military nonverbal communications are taken seriously it gives a message of respect and authority but also is used for movement in combat. In the ancient battles the nonverbal communication they used was writing, drawing, smoke signals, and even choreograph formations. Now in the military we still use the same nonverbal communication the only have added a few more and perfected the older ones.
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Interpersonal communication has evolved in the past one hundred years in the 1800s, the only way of communication was letters and having to visit and for the military drum beats, smoke signals, messenger pigeons. It wasn’t the First World War (WWI) that most of the world was using electricity and with new sources of communication were utilized like telegraphs, signal lamps, wireless radios, and telephones. Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call on March 10, 1876 and a year passed the landline evolved and so did the communication in those times.
Eventually we evolved to the first mobile phone made by Martin Cooper and made its first call on April 3, 1973. Then in 1993 Europe introduced the idea of text messaging. In 2002 the first smartphone was created you could receive messages and emails, but in the same year the first phone with a camera came out. A couple of years later 2007 the first Apple iPhone was released with the capacity to work as well as a computer. Little time after the creation of social media. The growth in technology has it, positive side witch, for example, you can see your family no matter how far they are on the other side it has affected some factors of interpersonal communication, on the other hand, the military puts effort into keeping their interpersonal communications intact.
This effort makes it noticeable when military personnel transition to Civilian life generally causing miscommunication with others. Soldiers used to the military interpersonal communication have a certain lifestyle that it becomes hard to change.
