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The author starts by pointing out, not without reason, that the king is
naked
Proceeding alphabetically, they include intelligence (though
there is an entry on ‘information technology’), leadership, logistics,
morale, terrain (Dupuy, at any rate, did take terrain into consideration)
and transport. With all due respect, I would suggest that any model of
military operations that fails to recognise these vital, though often hard
to quantify, factors is unlikely to be worth the paper, or the computer
screen, on which it is written
As all
of us students of military affairs know, uncertainty is a fundamental
attribute of war. As perhaps fewer of us realize, it is also a condition
without which war cannot exist and without which it would lose any
sense it does, or can, make. |
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