Ways to Reduce the Time Required to Plan the Movement of Troops of an Army over a Great Distance

However, the experience of operational-strategic exercises and war games shows that with the beginning of military operations, especially when they begin with surprise massed nuclear strikes the situation can be altered abruptly and as a result there is required not only a more precise definition of the plan worked out beforehand but also the adoption of a new decision and planning for the movement of large units and units of combined-arms and tank armies. Under such conditions planning will most often be carried out in an extremely limited time, parallel to bringing troops to full. combat readiness and eliminating the after effects of enemy nuclear strikes.