Glantz again:
''This offensive scheme posits certain distinct requirements,
among which are:''
- the achievement of a degree of surprise to create necessary force superiorities and gain initial advantage. This involves deception regarding attack intentions, timing, location, and scale.
- avoidance of major attack indicators. This requires renunciation of large scale mobilization, extensive pre-war theater preparations, and use of selective mobilization techniques.
- reliance on shallow strategic, operational, and tactical echelonment to offset lack of mobilization, to reap maximum surprise, and to establish high initial offensive momentum.
- early commitment of tactical and operational maneuver forces to achieve rapid penetration, to enmesh forces quickly, to avoid enemy nuclear response, and to diminish the effectiveness of enemy high precision fires.
''- development, and proliferation to the lowest command level (battalion), of advanced cybernetic techniques to speed planning and increase the efficiency of command and control during combat.'