I thoroughly enjoyed Colonel Campbell's piece. Thank you for recommending it to me. If you are interested in a deep dive into the early history of 'systematic' command-and-control in the US Army, you may enjoy this article: https://academic.oup.com/book/45784/chapter/400600808? (The link takes you to the website of the Oxford University Press.)
My apologies, Gentle Readers, I hit the 'send' button too early.
Arghh!
Thank you! I thought I had blacked out for two days. 😅
A bit early is always better than way late.
Colonel Ted Campbell used to discuss the problem of metastasized command structures on his blog (sadly, no longer being published, as he's fighting cancer). Here's an example I excerpted that argues Canada has suffered military command overstaffing due in part to our perceived need to match the US - https://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2017/09/17/american-military-command-and-control-as-adopted-by-the-canadian-military/
I thoroughly enjoyed Colonel Campbell's piece. Thank you for recommending it to me. If you are interested in a deep dive into the early history of 'systematic' command-and-control in the US Army, you may enjoy this article: https://academic.oup.com/book/45784/chapter/400600808? (The link takes you to the website of the Oxford University Press.)
Shameless plug. Check p.36 on of latest British Army Review, where I link armoured breaching fails in UKR to Brits in 1945.
https://chacr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/BAR-189_compressed.pdf