Abstract
Before a commander can commit his troops to action, he must decide just how, when and where he will do so. In order to reach a decision he must make an estimate of the situation. This estimate may be long and deliberate or short and fragmentary, but it always includes the following five steps1:
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• the mission
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• the situation and courses of action
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• the analysis of opposing courses of action
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• the comparison of own courses of action
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• the decision
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Katsaros, W.A. (1984). The Command and Control Process as a Function of Time. In: Huber, R.K. (eds) Systems Analysis and Modeling in Defense. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9370-6_15
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