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Combat Orders
“Can a battalion operate on verbal orders? Absolutely, yes.” - MajGen O.K. Steele, CG 2nd MarDiv, 1990
Combat Orders				Nesting the Main Effort
			Verbal Orders Techniques “All Stations, Kodiak Actual” “Ten Years of TDGs” MCG 2003		France 1940: XIX Panzer Corps Italy 1943: Operation AVALANCHE
Orders Articles				Orders Shorthand
		“A Critique of Pure Success” “Commander’s Intent” “Rethinking Combat Orders” Plans that Survive First Contact				Orders Shorthand Doctrinal Terms
Orders Handouts				Bad Orders
	Verbal Orders in Iraq: 3/7 OIF AAR “Burn’em” 1944 1st Division Order in Oran 1942 Attack Orders FM 17-33 1949						“Combat Orders at Kasserine Pass” “The Battle of Goose Green” A CAX Order 2000 Matrix Order Techniques Letter to Infantry Officer Course

“The higher the command, the shorter and simpler the order.” - LtGen George S. Patton, 1945	“The most important thing was that I gave all orders verbally.” - Gen Hermann Balck, 1945
“Those who cannot be trusted to act on clear and concise verbal orders … are useless.” - General Bernard Montgomery, 1958	“Orders were more often than not verbal.” - LtGen William Slim, CG XIV Army, Burma, 1944
“In France in 1918, a Division … order was sometimes fifteen or twenty pages long. After the war … efforts were made to cut down this verbosity but … as late as 1927 … I found a battalion order three and four pages in length.” - General George Marshall, 1942
“We cannot … issue long-winded orders, either written or oral. Whatever order we … issue must be short and … clear. If we hope to do this in war we must practice it in peace.” - Adolph von Schell, Battle Leadership

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