On Wednesday 15 February, the CHACR hosted a workshop sponsored by Brigadier Army Staff (BAS) focused on ‘command effectiveness’ or, in other words, boosting the effectiveness of higher-level Army headquarters to fulfil the command function. ‘Command effectiveness’ is one of several lines of operation being pursued in the refinement of the new Army Operating Model, established from April 2016 and which is fully described in the introductory article in this edition of Ares & Athena.