We don't have full information on the artillery exchanges or movement of forces behind the scenes, but perhaps the most interesting factor was an announcement by the South Korean minister of defence on Monday, while talks were ongoing, that his country was consulting the US over the movement of strategic assets.
It was like World War II, he said, in the movement of forces and supplies; like Vietnam in the tenacity and tactics of irregular forces and like the Persian Gulf war in the technological orchestration between weapons on the ground, in the air and in space.
A battle may seem, from a distance, whether a physical or temporal one, to be a matter of abstraction: like a game of chess, or Risk, the mass movement of "forces" rather than the bloody, horrific work of hand-to-hand fighting by desperate men (and boys: there were 14-year-olds in these armies).
From the same source we learn further that on 23 August 1962, the president had issued National Security Memorandum No 181, "a directive to engineer an internal revolt that would be followed by US military intervention", involving "significant US military plans, maneuvers, and movement of forces and equipment" that were surely known to Cuba and Russia.
The old Cold War map didn't necessarily involve huge, massive movement of forces across Sweden's doorstep, but now the map has changed.
In particular, building the towers and the walls of the Bastille at the same height allowed the rapid movement of forces around the castle, as well as giving more space to move and position cannons on the wider walkways.
Transportation technology moves soldiers and weaponry; communications coordinate the movements of armed forces; and sensors detect forces and guide weaponry.
However, major movements of Russian forces require consultation with the Ukrainian authorities and the agreed force levels cannot be increased unilaterally.
And thus he was assigned to operational intelligence, monitoring the rail movements of German forces.
They also include highly sensitive reports about the movements of security forces as they approach villages.
