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3/5 Leading Forward Means Trusting the Staff
Jack Watling in âThe Arms of the Futureâ shows how Israeli brigade/divisional commanders push forward while chiefs of staff run HQsâleadership at the front, management in depth, all as one support system for the force.
#FutureWar #LandWarfare #Leadership
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Bonus Insight : On the decisive value of a good general staff
Scharnhorstâs view that âwithout a well-organized general staff no army can be well led. A poorly organized and slightly trained army with a good general staff will accomplish more than a good army with a poor general staffâ directly echoes the idea that the staff system, not the individual commander, is the true lever of effectiveness.
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5/5 Staff Size Can Kill Decision-Making
In âAdvanced Landwarfareâ, Jim Storr notes how modern HQs have ballooned in rank and numbers, slowing decisions and filtering reality from the commander.
Smaller, faster, better-trained staffs beat bloated hierarchies.
#CommandAndControl #MilitaryReform #WarStudies
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4/5 Distributed Mission Command > Single Hero HQ
John F. Antal in âNext War â Reimagining How We Fightâ describes mesh command posts and distributed mission command: small, networked nodes that keep command alive even when one node diesâstaff as a resilient, battlefield-wide system.
#MissionCommand #FutureWar #MDO
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2/5 Command vs Control Isnât Semantics
B.A. Friedman in âOn Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplinesâ draws a sharp line: command is what the commander does; control is what the staff doesâmaking staff design and training a strategic choice, not admin trivia.
#OperationalArt #StaffWork #MilitaryStrategy
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1/5 Commanders Donât Win Wars. Staffs Do.
John A. Warden III in The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat argues that the true âcenter of gravityâ in modern war is the staff system that keeps operations on track, not the lone genius commander.
#MilitaryLeadership #CommandAndControl #FutureWar
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My 2025 in books, via @goodreads.
How is your 2026 Reading Challenge going on ?
2025 in books, via Goodreads đ
From doctrine and drones to systems thinking and persuasion: 15 Books.đ
Advanced Land Warfare, Maneuver Warfare Handbook, War Transformed, Swarm Troopers, The Weapon Wizards, Praxis Tacticum, Be Water, My Friend, Thinking in Systems, Surrounded by Idiots, Why Is Sex Fun?, Khajuraho- Temples of love, The Coming Wave, Talk Like TED & Creative Thinking, Civil Military Fusion.
Attaching my Goodreads âYear in Booksâ shelf screenshot for the record.â
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Leonhard's four temporal aspects, plus the lessons added on training, readiness, the cognitive minute and the electromagnetic fight.
Save it for later.
Credit for value additions -
@KTB_500 @TrentTelenko @Telos_of_War @TimOnPoint @alcal74
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Read more old books.
Most books go out of print in a few years, while some survive decades, and a few even centuries.
They last because theyâre timeless, not trendy.
Those who understood us centuries ago still have valuable lessons to teach us.
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Every fightâbe it battlefield, boardroom, or boxing ringâis a race through the OODA Loop.
âĄď¸ Out-loop your opponent.
âď¸ Disrupt their rhythm.
đ§ Win the decision before the action.
Observe. Orient. Decide. Act.
Repeat. Faster.
#Strategy #MilitaryThinking #NotesByDehran
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Mike Edwards â Spitfire Singh
From sepoy to officer, the story of Harjinder Singh captures grit, jugaad, and nation-building through air power in post-Independence India.
#SpitfireSingh #IAFHistory
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Jasjit Singh â Defence from the Skies
An Indian view of IAFâs evolution. Missed opportunities and future roles. Deep dive into self-reliance and aerospace transformation.
#IAF #AerospacePower
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1/7 â¨We think of war in terms of space: terrain, borders, positions.
Robert R. Leonhard argues the decisive dimension is actually time.
In Fighting by Minutes, he breaks time in war into four parts. A thread đ§ľ
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The failure to add the electromagnetic environment to this planning is the US Military planning to lose to enemies that do.
It's why every US ground force officer needs both a FAA drone operator license and a Ham radio operator license to make the transition to Drone warfare.
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Didn't expect this to take off.
Thanks to everyone sharing it.
Which of the four aspects do you think matters most: duration, frequency, sequence or opportunity?
Drop your pick below.
Next thread is coming soon.
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7/7â¨The lesson: manage all four together.
Good sequencing and high tempo create opportunities.
Seizing opportunities shapes how long the war lasts.
Space is where war happens. Time is how it's won.
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6/7
â¨4ď¸âŁ Opportunity: windows that close.
Moments of real enemy vulnerability are brief and unpredictable.
You can't schedule them.
You can only be organised to spot them and strike before they shut.
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5/7 â¨
3ď¸âŁ Sequence: what comes first.
Order of events matter.
The general that masterâs sequential perception understands first, second, third and fourth order consequences of his actions has advantage over his opponent because he has reasoned the most probable sequence of events.
