Word: lehre
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...fact, unfolded faster then any plan had predicted. Over one eight-hour period, the 1st Brigade received four major changes to the next day's plan of operations. Half jokingly Lieutenant Colonel Lehr, the Brigade Executive Officer, said, "Plan early, plan twice...
...German strategist Helmut von Moltke once observed, "No plan survives contact with the enemy." For the 101st Airborne Division that dictum struck with a vengeance. But, according to LTC Lehr this was a good thing. "In the past, the Army has had a tendency to try and fight according to plan, not according to what the enemy or situation dictated," he said. "This time we adopted our plans to what the enemy was doing." Moltke would have understood. His second dictum states, "War is a matter of expedients...
...offices that read, "The reason the American Army does so well in war is because war is chaos and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis." Planning of course is supposed to eliminate the chaos of the battlefield, but every soldier knows that's impossible. According to Lehr, "Planning is a point of departure. It is all about flexibility...