Overall
mind-time-space scheme
Message
According
to General Gunther Blumentritt, such a scheme presupposes a common
outlook based upon a body of professional officers who have received exactly
the same training during the long years of peace and with the same tactical
education, the same way of thinking, identical speech, hence a body of officers
to whom all tactical conceptions were fully clear.
Furthermore,
a la General Blumentritt, it presupposes an officers training institution
which allows the subordinate a very great measure
of freedom of action and freedom in the manner of
executing orders and which primarily calls for
independent daring, initiative and sense of responsibility.
Point
Without a common outlook superiors cannot give
subordinates freedom-of-action and maintain coherency of
ongoing action.
Implication
A common
outlook possessed by a body of officers represents a unifying theme that
can be used to simultaneously encourage subordinate initiative yet realize
superior intent.
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