Been reading on & off the memoirs of Sir Garnet Wolseley - he is totally scathing on the state of British Army preparedness for the Crimean War:pic.twitter.com/TdU9Jk1ljP
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I recall a story in which John Sedgwick purposefully kept on hand a soldier of lesser intellectual gifts to read his dispatches to make sure subordinates could understand them
Julius Caesar’s account of the Gallic Wars is still a good read
There is a Commander’s Intent portion of an operations order; I had a commander once who wrote in one order, “Find ‘em, Fix ‘em, F**k ‘em.”
Tbf, this is what pretty much every general says prior to every war (though it's usually correct)
Have you read General Grant’s book? I’ve always wondered how it was.
Such as General Grant and his wonderfully written memoir
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