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. Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank. Never reinforce failure. Failure reinforces itself. When a front line soldier overhears two General Staff officers conferring, he's fallen back too far.