This short booklet is a study, originally prepared for the US Army's Organizational Effectiveness Center and School, of the role of aide and liaison systems in historical campaigns and battles. The author examines these officers in light of a set of specific questions about their roles; he creates, in doing so, a spectrum of command and control functions that describes the functions performed by such staff officers. This spectrum consists of the categories-from passive to active-`couriers,' `info collectors,' observers/evaluators,' `executors.' The author discusses the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, and World War II most specifically, but touches on a number of other periods. He comes to no implementory conclusions, but notes connections between the activities he observes in history and the current doctrine of the US Army. He includes a bibliography.
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