What You Don't Know Will Kill You

Jim Choate ravage at ssz.com
Sat Aug 4 08:09:12 PDT 2001



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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