May 152011
The concept of a modern general staff includes planning for every foreseeable contingency: thus, when something untoward happens, all general staff officers need to do is to take the appropriate planning folder off a shelf, dust it off, quickly check it to make sure it is not unduly dated, and then put the plan into practice.
What I didn’t know is that in the 21st century, such planning extended all the way to include the contingency of a runaway bride.