SWM wrote:cthia wrote:I considered that Honor may not be on the need to know list as well. But I quickly dismissed it.
I felt the need to consider the actual war effort. For instance, when Hamish was getting his head handed to him at Trevor's Star by McQueen. I would imagine that he'd be told, if only to keep up morale, despite the asskicking he was presently getting, that things look better over the horizon.
Same for Harrington, who, it seems, was always going on the offensive with 25 % of the required order of battle.
Hamish wasn't told about Ghost Rider and CLACs until it the decision was made to move it from development to deployment. Despite the fact that Hamish had been fighting to get Trevor's Star for so long.Seems also, there'd be a need to begin pondering the manifold shift in tactical thinking, and how to best use the new systems - therefore certain officers would be given a heads-up and a leg-up. Especially with an attritional war fought with a numerically superior opponent as Haven was.
That is the job of BuPlan. And I don't think they would be involved until the weapon is near the end of the development phase. You're right, though, I forgot to include the upper echelons of BuPlan.
If BuPlan decided they needed the input of officers on the front lines, they might bring some in for consult. But their entire job is to formulate strategy and tactics with the weapons available. That's what they do, and I don't think they need to call in consultants very often. I imagine that they already have a constantly changing roster of officers with recent combat experience who have been rotated into BuPlan for some period of time, specifically to provide that perspective.But perhaps you're right after all. That's why I ask you military types.
Well, I'm not a military type either. I'll happily defer to anyone else with actual military knowledge.
cthia wrote:Thanks for the reminder about Hamish not having been informed. But I wonder if that was just formally.
Wasn't Caparelli First Space Lord during the bout for Trevor's Star? It seems that he would let certain information informally leak to White Haven.
It just seems that close friends would have a hard time keeping certain info from close friends. I've always wondered about 'classified' information in that respect.
No for two reasons. First of all, they weren't that close friends at the time of the run-up to Trevor's Star - they respected each other, but were not friends. Secondly, both White Haven and Caparelli understand security, and would not casually spread classified info for the sake of gossip.