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.
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