So how did the first order take over everything in the span of like 3 days after a devastating defeat?

>I don't think the "communicates with underlings" is either positive or negative
Yeah sure, don't ask fucking anyone else what's going on in their area of action and see how that battle goes for you

Crypto fascist incel holotable players rose up across the galaxy and threw down the republic.

Was the Deathstar's superlaser an allegory of the Holocaust or was it of WMDs?

You misunderstand. Strategy and tactics are entirely different things. You're thinking of tactics. Communication is necessary and should always be used in tactics. Not so in strategy.

underdog fetish. can't punch up and fight the system when you are the system

No, it's necessary in strategy too, if your commanders aren't coordinating and instead being egotistical fuckwits you end up with stupid shit like Konev and Zhukov's pointless race to Berlin that quite literally killed more people than the campaign would otherwise

America still took over the world after 9/11

Remember, starkiller base was an inside job.

Maybe more Hiroshima and the nuke. Just like Death Star and star killer base, it was this singular, tragic display of technological horror.

You don't need your commanders to coordinate as long as they follow your orders. Stonewall Jackson is an excellent example of this. Loved secrecy. Well known for never telling his subordinates what they were doing to great effect because his overall plans were always brilliant, as long as they followed orders, even if they did not know why those orders were given, they almost always won. Not to say Holdo is some kind of Jackson lmao, just this one singular aspect and none other.

Robert E. Lee had the opposite command style, where he always told his subordinates exactly what was going on and then relied on their initiative during battle.

Both effective in their own ways.

Pearl Harbour

Literally nothing in the movie implies they have 'taken over everything'.

Jackson opperated by secrecy and compartimentalized details but he also did not antagonize his officers the way Holdo does

The title crawl states "THE FIRST ORDER REIGNS"

>Loved secrecy
>Didn’t tell anyone what he was doing
>Gets shot by his own side who didn’t expect him to be where he was.

He was a pioneer in subverted expectations

>just this one singular aspect and none other

Actually they were where they were supposed to be, checking out terrain, when the group heard Federal voices and axes cutting trees to build fortifications. Only at that point did they leave that road, where their own lines heard horses and thought it was a federal cavalry attack and fired on them. Had they stuck to plan and remained on the road they came on nothing would have happened. Really, you could blame General Hill for telling Jackson he was unfamiliar with the terrain.