{"product_id":"2940148664475","title":"The Directed Telescope: A Traditional Element of Effective Command","description":"“War is the redm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope:\u003cbr\u003eno other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance\u003cbr\u003emakes. everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.”\u003cbr\u003eSo wrote Karl von CIausewitz in his clas.sie, On WQ~. This inherent uncertainty\u003cbr\u003ein war, when combined with exertion, danger, and chance, produces an everpresent\u003cbr\u003efriction. The commander’s role throughout military ?\u0026amp;story has been to\u003cbr\u003ereduce the uncertainties of war for his own side and increase them for his\u003cbr\u003eenemy. Notwithstanding great advances in the arts and sciences of command\u003cbr\u003eand control, the best commanders have traditionally used trusted subordinates\u003cbr\u003eas extensions of their own minds as a way of penetrating the fog of war. This\u003cbr\u003etechnique has come to be called the “directed telescope.‘”\u003cbr\u003eThe Directed Telescope: A Traditional Element of .Effective Command, by\u003cbr\u003eLieutenant Colonel Gary B Griffin, was first published by the Combat Studies\u003cbr\u003eInstitute in 1985 as a CSL Report. Since its publication, Directed Telescope\u003cbr\u003ehas been widely read across our Army and quite a few others, and as the\u003cbr\u003ePersian Gulf operations began several months ago, the study took on a particular\u003cbr\u003erelevance and timeliness. Lieutenant~ Colonel Griffin examines the historic rote\u003cbr\u003eplayed by liaison officers, aides-de-camp, and staff observers as extensions of\u003cbr\u003ethe commander. The study focuses on the relationship between several great\u003cbr\u003ecommanders and their liaison officers, as well as the systems, techniques, and\u003cbr\u003eorganizations they employed. With this study in hand, modern-and future commanders\u003cbr\u003ecan draw on an expert analysis of various command and control\u003cbr\u003eexpedients as they create new versions of the directed telescope.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108821123312,"sku":"2940148664475","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148664475_p0.jpg?v=1763706568","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148664475","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}