Book Recommendations
Orders
The Heartbeat of Military Operations
Case Studies of Combat Order Use
This collection showcases case studies of combat order use from across history, from World War One to the recent operations by United States forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read about how General Wood in World War Two charged across France with his division, operating on nothing but verbal orders. Or cringe as you learn how the British nearly lost the Battle of Goose Green of the Falklands War due to complicated, vague and centralized order processes.
Major Brendan B. McBreen, USMC, 2004
Major John Garrett, USA, 2000
3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, USMC, 2004
US Army Command and General Staff College Press, USA, 1999
General George Marshall, USA, 1943
Major Brendan B. McBreen, USMC, 2000
Major Brendan B. McBreen, USMC, 2003
Keith Nightingale, Small Wars Journal, 2017
Major Thomas Greenwood, USMC, 1995
Major Brendan B. McBreen, USMC, 2003
Lieutenant Colonel Jens Kuster, Germany, 2016
Dr. William Glenn Robertson, 1985
Major Donald Vandergriff, USA, 2000
Major Brendan B. McBreen, USMC, 2003
Chief of Military History, US Army, 1952
Major Brett Matzenbacher, US Army, 2018