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]