Faction War TL:DR

With Bruno already on his side, Leo's progress accelerated to the speed he actually wanted it to be. 

The ducal war council consisted of pretty much Leo, Bruno, and a bunch of secondary officers, all of which answered directly either to their liege lord, Bruno… or Usmar, the grizzled veteran of ten wars and a hundred conflicts with one, extremely important quality of a mindset that made the entire war council just a formality. 

For how great of a veteran Usmar was, he wasn't ignorant of how far he fell out of touch with both the politics of the world and the methods of conducting warfare ever since the introduction of Leonidas ideas and their transformation of the weapon manufacturing industry. 

If one were to summarize the proceedings of the Ducal War Council, they could do so with just a single sentence. 

"You guys know better than I do, so just leave the field of battle to me, and I will leave the strategy of warfare to you."