Tactical thinking feels powerful. It is decisive. It is visible. It produces fast feedback. And that is exactly why it becomes dangerous when it stands alone.
The best S/G3 officers i worked with always had the S/G4 officer and senior noncom in the loop and all IPRs and strategy meetings. At the top of the list was What are the stockages of equipment and supplies? How quickly. An it be resupplied when it starts running low? How will it be moved to the front line troops? Do we have enough vehicles? What is the back up plan if the roads get cut off? These were the ones i loved working with. They always started with logistics and then built off that. Based off of what the S/G4 informed them they were able to build the strategy and tactics needed to accomplish the mission
S/G4= S4 is Brigade and below G4 is general staff both deal with all forms of logistics to include ordering, stockage, maintaining, shipment, maintenance of vehicles, food and cooks, and such
Thank you for your your comment. Appreciate you taking the time to read the article. Yes it only makes you have to have the supplies and logistics to continuously move forward, plan and win.
Even Patton in WWII knew this. When Eisenhower in order to appease the brits cut off the supplies to Patton and other US units to support Montgomerys cluster fuck called Operation Market Garden, he threw a fit and told Eisenhower to give those supplies to him and he would be in Berlin in 3 weeks and he was right he would have been. He knew mintigomery was no tactician or strategist and it was a waste of time, supplies, and lives
The best S/G3 officers i worked with always had the S/G4 officer and senior noncom in the loop and all IPRs and strategy meetings. At the top of the list was What are the stockages of equipment and supplies? How quickly. An it be resupplied when it starts running low? How will it be moved to the front line troops? Do we have enough vehicles? What is the back up plan if the roads get cut off? These were the ones i loved working with. They always started with logistics and then built off that. Based off of what the S/G4 informed them they were able to build the strategy and tactics needed to accomplish the mission
S/G4= S4 is Brigade and below G4 is general staff both deal with all forms of logistics to include ordering, stockage, maintaining, shipment, maintenance of vehicles, food and cooks, and such
IPR.=Intitial Planning Review
Thank you for your your comment. Appreciate you taking the time to read the article. Yes it only makes you have to have the supplies and logistics to continuously move forward, plan and win.
Even Patton in WWII knew this. When Eisenhower in order to appease the brits cut off the supplies to Patton and other US units to support Montgomerys cluster fuck called Operation Market Garden, he threw a fit and told Eisenhower to give those supplies to him and he would be in Berlin in 3 weeks and he was right he would have been. He knew mintigomery was no tactician or strategist and it was a waste of time, supplies, and lives
Very important process to remember. Without support , supply and logistics your mission will fail . Thanks
Absolutely right!