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The time line for each country would, of course, be different due to the organizational and communications concepts practiced by that county and the level at which a decision can be made.
"Captain you can't order an air strike, only a Major or above can do that!" 
An extreme example might be a platoon calling in an artillery strike. The platoon Co. call company hq who calls brigade hq, who call regimental, gets side track to the quartermaster who transfers the call back to regimental, who has gone out for lunch, returns 20 minutes later, someone somewhere at regimental hq, oks the fire mission, then you have to go all the way to the artillery unit who will do the firing and arrange a time for it to be executed.
Or a case where there is a FO on the phone talking directly to the artillery unit this was one of the reasons that FO's had their own communications links.
As you can see this could get to be extremely time intense depending on the level of communication present in a particular army's organization.
And this is not even going to a different organization such as a separate air force.
One of the reasons the Germans were so good a getting thing done was they allocated the forces necessary to accomplish a task under one commander who had the decision ability and who encoraged the same decision ablilty in lower ranks plus direct communication within his force. So that platoon could call the artillery directly. This is the Kamphgrupp idea aka, Battlegroup, Combat Commands.
So each country would have it's own time line, which would change over the course of the war. Some would get better either dur to improved communication or improved orginization and improve decision making. Some woud get worse due to degraded commications or poorer orginization and decision making capability.
Da** I do get long winded...
I think I'll go find a nice Tiki Bar with a volcano and scantily clad young ladies (they don't have to be Italian) but when you want the best........ 
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ORIGINAL: dgk196
@ pbear
Interesting. I like the 'time' related concept. As long as it reflected actual abilities and not a 'one size fits all' application! One thing that made the various 'countries' air support was their ability to react, or not react, in a 'timely' manner!
Dennis
< Message edited by pbear -- 5/2/2008 8:15:11 PM >
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