While a lot of people reblogged this saying “lol randumb”, it’s actually one of the US’s greatest strengths in warfare. Soviet, and later Russian planners usually created a doctrine and stuck to it, adapting it for the situation. This can work amazingly, like in Operation Bagration, but it is inherently limited by its very nature. Look at the situation in Ukraine. I was able to tell exactly what was going on the second Mi-24’s were crossing the border- because it was all going according to doctrine.
The US has doctrine, but it plays it fast and loose. The US Army Strategic Manual has a fucking clause in it that says you should do what is best for the situation, not what will fit doctrine.
The anonymous American quote makes a lot more sense in this context. If we don’t have a written document we must abide by to create plans in battle, we’re unpredictable. The main drawback is that untalented and uninspired officers are weak and indecisive, but no matter what they do, they’ll have the element of surprise.
THIS. So much fucking this. “No plan survives contact with the enemy.”
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