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97 - Time and the importance of timeliness in orders with Jim Storr

The Principles of War - Lessons from Military History on Strategy, Tactics, Doctrine and Leadership.

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What's the Golden Thread of Strategy and Tactics?

I think it's got an awful lot worse since the Cold War, to be fair. Things have definitely got bigger, stodier, longer on all those negative adjectives that you could come up with. One of the big problems that's often talked about is that there is meant to be a golden thread that runs from strategy down to operations and then to tactics but we seldom see that. I'm the first writer to actually say that there should be. People aren't explicitly aware or haven't been explicitly aware of the need for it. Then they blunder into what they think is right and good, not knowing that some of the consequences are negative.

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