What gets you promoted from one rank gets you killed in the next rank. A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. If orders can be misunderstood, they have been. Tracer works both ways. If the enemy is in range, so are you.
War is like love.
To triumph, you must make contact. Karl von Clausewitz Never reinforce failure. Failure reinforces itself. When a front line soldier overhears two General Staff officers conferring, he's fallen back too far. It isn't necessary to be an idiot to be a senior officer, but it sure helps.