[drc500free]

My personal experience was as comms flows up a military org, the summarization process at every level is to mechanically convert each slide into a single bullet in the more senior deck. Everything became diluted, and there was no way for a key point to survive from the tactical level up to the flag level.

[FredPret]

But that is inherent in cognition.

We see an incredibly detailed universe, and we simplify it into objects and personalities.

Then we make it more abstract and talk about personalities doing things to objects, and so on up the chain, until we get to “army 1 did this to army 2”.

[unixhero]

And add a satellite to any on the ground architecture.