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Orders
The Heartbeat of Military Operations
History of Combat Orders
The five paragraph order template utilized by most Western militaries today was initially developed by the Prussian Army during the German Wars of Unification. Observers from other nations, impressed by the Prussian Army's performance on the battlefield, adopted portions of this new "orders process" to then develop their own versions of battlefield orders. This archive contains documents that depict the evolution of combat orders over the last century and a half, and that still have lessons for commanders today on the battlefield.
Schwarte, Germany, 1913
Douglas Haig, 1907
Lieutenant Colonel Knut Czeslik, Germany, 1991
The General Service Schools Press. USA, 1922
Captain Roger Fitch, USA, 1909
FM 17-33 Tank Battalion, USA, 1949
USMC, 1944
Lieutenant Burde, Germany, 1899
USAAF, 1942
Colonel Von Spohn, Germany, 1907
Coastal Field Artillery Journal, 1925