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From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_yeats.ucc.ie>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:04:52 GMT

Ilav Topix:
> Alex, IMO the focus should not be the command structure, but the training
> and combat style the Char-Uns have. If they, like the Cossacks, are light
> cavalry, then they are trained to fight in small bands, to take initiative
> even if orders lack, to fight unsupported and to forage where they can.

Why should this be the focus, pray? If you're integrated into a huge military establishment like the Lunars', and are notionally deployed in wartime in 500-odd regiments, you can't just suddenly 'take a notion' to peel off 15 guys and park them in Tarsh by themselves, without a commander of any sort whatsoever. And nor is it a very good idea to just pluck a soi-disant 'commander' for them either out of the rank and file, or out of the non-Char-Un officer cadre. Disaster on a stick, frankly.

Cheers,
Alex.