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Orders: A User's Guide
What are the best practices for issuing orders in combat?
How do you direct your unit quickly, clearly, and concisely in a chaotic environment?
A User's Guide is a handbook for small unit leaders at the squad, platoon, and company level. Illustrated with example orders, historical vignettes, common errors to avoid, and pointers to doctrinal manuals, it is chock-full of effective techniques to construct and issue a combat order. Includes useful tips on how to cut time off of your orders process, focus on the essentials, and increase the effectiveness of your directives.
An ideal reference for infantry unit leaders.
How do you direct your unit quickly, clearly, and concisely in a chaotic environment?
A User's Guide is a handbook for small unit leaders at the squad, platoon, and company level. Illustrated with example orders, historical vignettes, common errors to avoid, and pointers to doctrinal manuals, it is chock-full of effective techniques to construct and issue a combat order. Includes useful tips on how to cut time off of your orders process, focus on the essentials, and increase the effectiveness of your directives.
An ideal reference for infantry unit leaders.
108 pages, Paperback
Published April 26, 2023
About the author
Brendan McBreen
6 books Brendan McBreen is a poet and workshop facilitator with Striped Water Poets in Auburn Washington.
He graduated from Auburn Riverside High School, attended college at Green River Community College, the University of Phoenix, and Monash University in Australia. Once long ago he earned his black belt in karate from the American Karate Escrima Association. As a regular attendee of various poetry and literary events, (such as Burning Word, the Skagit River Poetry Festival, the SPLAB! visiting poets series, and Poets in the Park) he has taken classes presented by many notable writers including: Wanda Coleman, Diane di Prima, Christopher Howell, the incomparable Jack McCarthy, former Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken, Elizabeth Austen, and many others.
Brendan is an event coordinator with Auburn AugustFest and the Poetry at the Rainbow Café reading and open-mic series. He is a former coordinator of the August Poetry Postcard Project. And his cooking has been known to make people cry.
He writes sci-fi poetry, haiku, is a surrealist, a humorist, a Seahawks fan, an admirer of crows and cats, and a life-long collector of weirdness. He is a student of Zen and Taoist philosophy, Wicca, psychology, and various other esoteric ideas. He is a collage artist, an occasional cartoonist and sometimes still paints.
He graduated from Auburn Riverside High School, attended college at Green River Community College, the University of Phoenix, and Monash University in Australia. Once long ago he earned his black belt in karate from the American Karate Escrima Association. As a regular attendee of various poetry and literary events, (such as Burning Word, the Skagit River Poetry Festival, the SPLAB! visiting poets series, and Poets in the Park) he has taken classes presented by many notable writers including: Wanda Coleman, Diane di Prima, Christopher Howell, the incomparable Jack McCarthy, former Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken, Elizabeth Austen, and many others.
Brendan is an event coordinator with Auburn AugustFest and the Poetry at the Rainbow Café reading and open-mic series. He is a former coordinator of the August Poetry Postcard Project. And his cooking has been known to make people cry.
He writes sci-fi poetry, haiku, is a surrealist, a humorist, a Seahawks fan, an admirer of crows and cats, and a life-long collector of weirdness. He is a student of Zen and Taoist philosophy, Wicca, psychology, and various other esoteric ideas. He is a collage artist, an occasional cartoonist and sometimes still paints.
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January 6, 2025
Straightforward and useful. The IOC instructors would want to burn certain pages and worship others. (No Commander’s intent subparagraph)
May 27, 2025
Essential for small unit leaders in today’s military.
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