commander's estimate of the situation

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A logical process of reasoning by which a commander considers all the circumstances affecting the military situation and arrives at a decision as to a course of action to be taken in order to accomplish the mission. A commander's estimate that considers a military situation so far in the future as to require major assumptions is called a commander's long-range estimate of the situation.

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