When they do, only "commander's intent" will be there to guide soldiers and officers in the field.
Moreover, according to the report, Georgia's military lacks basic elements of a modern military bureaucracy, ranging from a sound national security doctrine to clear policies for handling classified material to a personnel-management system to guide soldiers through their careers.
At great personal risk, interpreters bridged the language gap, guided soldiers and marines through unfamiliar streets, served as cultural advisers and made crucial introductions.
Peasants, Bedouins, tribal leaders, guides, soldiers, and slaves make up a society that is both impossibly strange and palpably near, in the simple and not so simple human sense.
The emphasis has tended to be on guiding soldiers through the often fraught transition to civilian life by helping them find decent homes, jobs, and support in their communities rather than tailoring specific services for the notoriously difficult business of beating addiction and preventing relapse.
While a strong monitoring team is a guiding soldier to force implementing agencies adhere strictly to project principles and implementation guidelines, its activities are limited to ensuring that project is implemented based on the specifications of donor representative.
The 2015 documentary "Sherpa" profiles some of the mountain guides soldiering on in the wake of the avalanche that claimed the lives of 16 of their compatriots on Everest in 2014.
But he also helped guide many soldiers to safety, including one whose shin had been pulverized.
But the fragility did not discourage Edward Ryan, the field's best-known collector, who owned legions of two-dimensional regiments and wrote a comprehensive 1995 guide, "Paper Soldiers: The Illustrated History of Printed Paper Armies of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries".
(The burning effects of white phosphorus, they said, can detonate rockets waiting on launchers; for this reason, white phosphorus falls within rules guiding the soldiers' use of force).
And the C.I.C. is guided by soldiers onshore, at the front, sometimes picking targets as close as twenty yards away from them.
