Not actual military leaders. The fictional military leadership of the re-imagined series Battlestar Galactica. 

The tech/gadget blog DVice – published by the Sci Fi Network, which airs BSG, points out the low-tech nature of the show’s fictional universe – which includes sound-powered telephone, a technology we’ve flogged here and in other forums – points this out in 9 Awesome Gadgets from Battlestar Galactica

Solid-State Tactical Planning Tools

Forget your holographic models or your CGI simulations, this is the way to plan a war: with not-to-scale models on a big table. Best of all, if you run out of pieces for something important, like Vipers, you can just substitute spare change or something.

Read the rest of 9 Awesome Gadgets from Battlestar Galactica – funny, yes, but a reminder that good emergency planning uses lots of redundancy and lots of simplicity – especially when tools are going to be used by people with little or no training.