Ideas of Gold - Part 4

They spoke of abstractions about managing the morale of an army, and how that might apply to the management of a populace's morale. For once, Oliver had been more than interested in the studies that had been carried out, testing the various theories. In the end, none of them had seemed to be a fix-all solution, but all of them had some sort of positive effect in different ways, providing solutions to different problems.

They discussed too problems of logistics, something that Oliver had thought he would find excessively tiresome, but somehow, he found he rather liked it. It was like his mathematics class, only with a reason for carrying out the sums. They spoke of the importance of supply routes in battle, how the positioning of their own supplies and the enemies might affect their strategies, and so too how it affected the morale of the troops.