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News | Aug. 1, 2025

The Variables of OPCON: The History of the "Control Rod" Logic

By Dr. Clint Work The Diplomat

In a series of articles, Dr. Clint Work, explores each of the key variables that have shaped the policy process around wartime operational control (OPCON) transition and how they have aligned or clashed with one another to either advance or complicate — if not outright delay — the policy.

This first article in the series — split into two parts — explores one of the more consequential if difficult to measure variables, namely, the “control rod” logic.

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