Yes, I stipulate that there are several times in
Chapter 2 that chan G. and his staff officers speak
of Salby officers as if they were not present.
That strongly implies - to me - that the Salby
officers were not present at this meeting.
However, I do not dare to go as far as Mil-tech goes,
in calling this **proof** of their absence.
As Phillies says, courtesy in the Sharonan Army may
differ from courtesy and custom in the U S Army.
Weber, Evans, and Presby might have inserted some
differences deliberately.
It might be Sharonan military courtesy to speak of
data received, as if the givers were absent,
even when they are present.
For all that, my guess is that the Salby officers
were *not* present at this particular meeting.
I guess that chan G. wanted to have one meeting with
his staff, and his Brigade-captain, only, excluding
even the Brigade-captain's staff. I join with Don and
bkw in feeling that Mil-tech is overly strict in
assigning blame for that omission.
Did anyone else note the absence of the
Brigade-captain's staff? Will Mil-tech assign blame
for that, too? One reason to leave them out might be
that they will be holding the line at Fort Salby,
and might possibly be captured,
and can not tell what they don't know,
such as where Second Brigade,
and the echelons trailing them, are.
Would that ignorance fool anyone?
Does anyone think the Arcanans would not guess?
Would the First Brigade officers themselves, not guess?
HTM this post is long enough; more next post
Mil-tech bard wrote: {snip - htm}
We know for a fact, not belief, **from the basics of military protocol,** that the Ft. Salby officers were
not present from the following snippet passage.
Battalion-Captain Chimo chan Gayrahn was the Third Dragoons’ planning and operations officer, which meant — despite his relatively junior rank — that he was also in charge of chan Geraith’s intelligence assessments.
{snip}
“These are the notes I’ve been working on for Division-Captain chan Geraith,” he continued, looking around the other officers’ faces. “They’re based on interviews with Regiment-Captain chan Skrithik, Sunlord Markan, and Fort Salby’s other surviving officers and noncoms. And my assessment based on them, which I’ve already shared with the Division-Captain, is that Regiment-Captain chan Skrithik and his men hurt the Arcanans even more badly than we’d assumed.”
{snip}
"... Regiment-Captain chan Skrithik and his men severely mauled the enemy’s ‘dragons.’ Obviously, the ones killed in the attack, even if we combine the ones picked off in Prince Janaki’s ambush with the ones shot out of the sky here at the fort, represent only a relatively small percentage of the total number of dragons the Regiment-Captain’s men observed.
{snip}
Military protocol 101 would see Battalion-Captain Chimo chan Gayrahn recognizing/acknowledging Regiment-Captain chan Skrithik, if Skrithik were in the room.
Similarly, Gayrahn would have acknowledged Skrithik's Battalion-Captain executive officer, if he were in the room.
The same observation on military protocol 101 applies for Division-Captain chan Geraith.
{snip - htm}
