Introduction: Battle Command on the move and Army doctrine ; Summary -- Battle command in the age of the horse (Antiquity to Napoleon) ; Ancient times ; Genghis Khan and mobile leadership ; Napoleon and battle command on the move ; Summary -- The American experience to 1861 ; The Yorktown Maneuver, 1781 ; Advance On Mexico City, 1847 ; Summary -- Mobile battle command in the American Civil War and after: Grant's move on Petersburg, June 1864 ; The Appomattox Campaign, 1865 ; Mobile command in the Indian Wars 1865-1890 and beyond ; Summary -- Battle command in the industrial age: World War I battle command ; France 1914: Lack of command and control defeats a German mobile operation ; Development of new style Infantry tactics ; World War II and Korean War Infantry battle command ; Summary -- Armored and airborne mobile operations battle command 1939-45: Blitzkrieg command and control-German theory and practice for command of mobile units conducting mobile operations ; US Army World War II mobile operations battle command theory and practice ; The first modern US Army mobile campaign-Brittany, August 1944 ; Summary -- Battle command in Vietnam 1965-72: Command and control by helicopter ; Operation PEGASUS: Battle command on the move in airmobile operations ; Summary -- Battle command in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War: The Battle of El Firdan ; The Battle of the Chinese Farm/Suez Crossing ; Summary -- The Soviet approach to mobile battle command: Battle command on the move by the numbers ; Artillery offensive ; The Soviet approach in other Armies ; Summary -- Modern US Army battle command and command post theory and organization: Command post theory versus actual organization ; Command and command post vehicles ; Summary -- Mobile battle command in modern US Army operations 1991-2003: The 1991 Gulf War ; The Baghdad Campaign, 2003 ; Summary -- Battle command in the age of the modular Army: Lessons From Iraq ; Modularity ; Summary -- Conclusion -- Appendix A Selected motile operations of the past -- Appendix B. The development of battlefield command and control measures, graphics and symbology: A short history of military symbols and control measures ; German military symbols ; Soviet military symbols ; American military symbols ; Standardized NATO military symbology ; Mobile operations control measures.