Command and Control
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- Created on: 26-05-18 13:35
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- Command and Control
- Napoleonic
- Corps system horses, cavalry and artillery = 30,000 men
- 3 infantry divisions a brigade of cavalry and guns
- greater flexibility
- Corps system horses, cavalry and artillery = 30,000 men
- Revolutionary
- Divisions under Carnot 12,000 men
- Columns
- 50 - 80 men across the front
- 9 -`12 men deep
- Crimean
- 10 brigades of infantry 2 brigades of cavalry (britsih)
- American Civil War
- Control over the electro magnetic telegraph
- troops dispersed by rail
- Field armies operated independently in their own theaters
- Change from previous as forces had been a massed for one big battle such as waterloo
- Grant saw the need simultaneous co-ordinated campaigns
- 1st war where there was on overall orchestrated plan
- Sequential battles to wear down enemy
- 1863 artillery Incorporated more at corps level
- Units accompanied the troops in terms of medical and engineer units
- 33 wagons per 1 thousand troops
- overall logistics generally bigger
- At out break north only had two officers with experience above regimentle level
- operational and higher level commanders operated
- WW1
- return to traditional command structures
- appointment of allied commander
- German professional army vs British volunteer army
- germas trained non-commissioned officers
- stormtroopers 1918
- WW2
- blitz kreig
- flexibilty in command was important
- greater initiative
- allied commander
- Dynastic
- armies belonged to the king
- kings had small loyal fores
- Prussian Reforms
- General staff
- staff duties rotated
- Seperate from ministry of war
- War collage
- 9 months courses from 1801 covering necessary requirements
- Moltkes reforms 1857-1888
- staff duties rotated
- Mapped country for military purposes
- Prussian victories led to countries following suit
- TURNING POINT
- Other countries followed suit
- Had a bigger impact than the Naopleonic changes
- railways were also Incorporated into planning
- Other countries followed suit
- General staff
- Napoleonic
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