A battle commander's staff dialogue can be reconstructed cautiously from recorded decisions and surviving remarks. The method asks which staff officers were present, what responsibilities they held, and what information each could have contributed at the moment of decision. A fact known somewhere in the force may not have reached the relevant officer, and that officer may not have been in the room when the choice was made. The exercise turns an apparent error into a study of command-and-control friction without treating imagined dialogue as part of the historical record.
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Reconstructing decisions from incomplete battle records
A proposed historical exercise shows how staff presence, responsibilities, and the movement of information can explain decisions that otherwise look obviously mistaken.