The early chapters of Ninefox Gambit[0] have Captain Cheris recalling some of her experiences in giving orders and taking orders in such a system. The key is t

The early chapters of Ninefox Gambit[0] have Captain Cheris recalling some of her experiences in giving orders and taking orders in such a system. The key is that the soliders are set to a strategem, not a specific x-y-z position, and have to try to keep in that cadence, so to speak. Yoon Ha Lee's writing is incredibly strange and open to interpertation here, so if this sounds strange, it's somewhat meant to be (Calendrical Rot, corpselight, amputation guns, etc.). Reading the early chapters is better than me trying to explain it. That said, trying to manage battle is fruitless and attempting to impose order into something that intentionally random and chaotic is not going to go well. Col. Boyd's OODA loop[1] is pertienet here. If your enemy knows that they have been looped, then putting random noise into the system can alievate that and get them back into the war. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machineries_of_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machineries_of_Empire [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop