The measure of efficiency of a service is its preparedness to take the field. In reviewing the activities of the Field Artillery during the past year, occasion has been taken to refer to conditions
as they existed in this service prior to, during,...
Course of lectures upon The Defense of the Sea Coast of the United States delivered before the U.S. Naval War College by Bvt. Brig.-Gen. Henry L. Abbot.
In our service we have come to use the term "estimate of the situation" to express that logical process of thought which, applied to a concrete tactical problem, enables one to arrive at a definite tactical decision.