"Let us set aside, for the moment, the issue of dispersing the First and Third Armies," one of the attendees, a senior military advisor, raised his hand slightly and made a deliberate gesture as he spoke, his tone measured yet carrying a clear underlying frustration, "this entire problem only emerged because of the repeated and overlapping interventions of the marshals. Every time we manage to gather even a modest number of fleets or elite units, they are immediately redirected toward the Mid sectors. We are left rebuilding from fragments over and over again."
