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Radios and exercises could improve French and Belgian coordination

Extra time gives communications equipment and joint training a chance to catch up with the forces being expanded.

Notes

French and Belgian improvements involve the distribution of radios and practice in coordinating different arms. German forces had an advantage from developing integrated methods within a smaller force before expanding it. Larger existing institutions had more work to do to spread equipment and training. Three more years could reduce that gap, especially in air-ground cooperation. The forecast concerns the ability to coordinate operations, without assuming that every command problem disappears.