> As the possession of the woods serves the purpose of protecting the forces moving through the defile, the order should say: ‘take possession of the woods’.
What of placing time constraints on orders to synchronize the actions of multiple units? This is common practice now, but I have read of the difference between Phase Lines and Axes of Advance, the latter preferred by Prussian-style command. However, this does require a certain insensitivity to changes in timing based on realized tempo, and invites comparisons to different formalisms in information processing, namely synchronous (centrally clocked, cf. phase lines) versus asynchronous/delay-invariant (locally clocked, cf. axes of advance) computing.
> As the possession of the woods serves the purpose of protecting the forces moving through the defile, the order should say: ‘take possession of the woods’.
What of placing time constraints on orders to synchronize the actions of multiple units? This is common practice now, but I have read of the difference between Phase Lines and Axes of Advance, the latter preferred by Prussian-style command. However, this does require a certain insensitivity to changes in timing based on realized tempo, and invites comparisons to different formalisms in information processing, namely synchronous (centrally clocked, cf. phase lines) versus asynchronous/delay-invariant (locally clocked, cf. axes of advance) computing.