You already banned Powerpoint? Great, next you might eliminate written orders
While Tom Ricks is away from his blog, he has selected a few of his favorite posts to re-run. We will be posting a few every day until he returns. This originally ran on July 8, 2010. I was reading a 1986 paper from the School of Advanced Military Studies about generalship and was interested ...
While Tom Ricks is away from his blog, he has selected a few of his favorite posts to re-run. We will be posting a few every day until he returns. This originally ran on July 8, 2010.
While Tom Ricks is away from his blog, he has selected a few of his favorite posts to re-run. We will be posting a few every day until he returns. This originally ran on July 8, 2010.
I was reading a 1986 paper from the School of Advanced Military Studies about generalship and was interested by this quotation from Hermann Balck, a senior German general of World War II:
Even my largest and most important operations orders were verbal [oral]. After all there wasn’t any need for written orders. As division commander, I forbade the use of written orders within my division."
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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