On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, John Young wrote:
> Hans Mark, a septugenarian DoD official in a seminar at Harvard
> on "Intelligence, Command and Control," in Spring 2000 said:
>
> "It is as bad to have too much information as it is not to have any.
> Both contribute to Clausewitzs fog of war.
Bullshit, the problem with 'fog of war' and too much intel is not having
a system that can rate and manage that intel. It's not the information,
it's the manipulator who is failing here and generating the fog of war.
> It is not good to have a
> completely transparent communications system. The private does
> not need to know what the general knows. In fact, if the private knew
> what the general knows, he might not want to go over the next hill."
Pashendale, Ypers, Hurtgen Forest, Vietnam...
Sometimes the general is an ass and shouldn't be followed.
> Mark says he believes in unquestioned command authority as the
> most essential quality of the military, over weapons, strategy,
> tactics and intelligence.
All socialist/fascist do, otherwise they'd be out of a job.
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