•In responding
to this question let us take a look at some evidence (provided
by Martin van Creveld as well as myself) that may help in this regard:
•Napoleon’s use of
staff officers for personal reconnaissance
•Moltke’s message
“directives” of few words
•British tight control
at the Battle of the Somme in 1916
•British GHQ “phantom”
recce regiment in WW II
•Patton’s “household
cavalry”
•My use of “legal
eagle” and comptroller at NKP.