CONTENTS

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Foreword V
Preface VII
Chapter I—Our Approach to a Critical Matter 1
Chapter II—Military Communications 20
Chapter III—Problems in the Composition of the Field Message 33
Chapter IV—More Problems on the Composition of the Field Message 41
Chapter V—Verbal Field Message 49
Chapter VI—The Field Order, The Estimate, The Decision, The Expression 58
Chapter VII—Problems in the Field Order 73
Chapter VIII—More Problems of the Composition of the Field Order 93
Chapter IX—The Verbal Field Order 110
Chapter X—The Operation Order, Orders, Letters of Instruction 124
Chapter XI—The War Diary—The Report—Routine Orders 147
Chapter XII—Official Correspondence—Explanations—Lectures 165
Appendices 187