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2.31 Economy of Effort. Economy of effort connotes
balanced deployment and judicious employment of forces to
ensure success with minimum casualties.
2.32 Flexibility. Flexibility is the
appropriately to changing situations.
capability
to
react
2.33 Cooperation.
All agencies involved have to work
jointly towards achievement of the overall aim to achieve
success in war. Jointmanship leads to cooperation;
cooperation produces synergy.
2.34 Administration. Placing the resources required at the
right place and time to help commanders at all levels to
achieve their respective objectives is the function of
administration.
2.35 Intelligence. This is an addition to the widely
accepted principles of war because of its pre-eminence in any
future conflict. Military Intelligence involves acquisition and
exploitation of information about the enemy. Informatics plays
a major role in ensuring that intelligence is available in time
and in the desired form.
“War should be made methodically for it should
have a definite object; and it should be conducted
according to the principles and rules of the art”.
– Napoleon, Maxims of War, 1831.