Nope.
Its called “the caterpillar effect”. Armies have been confounded by it since the dawn of time.
Lets say you have unit 1, marching… unit 2 is behind it, similarly marching, unit 3 marching, unit 4… unit 500 is way in the back… not marching. Its been standing for a hour, confused why it was forced to stop marching by the unit in front of it. Suddenly, unit 499 starts screaming, and rushes off, and Unit 500 screams “oh shit” in return, takes off running even faster to make up the gap. 499 stops suddenly, 500 crashes into them, 501 really rams them hard.
Why?
All sorts of damn reasons, but primarily this… linear coordination is very difficult for humans (annually migrating animals seem better). The units up front, especially the first unit, has the lead, and does what it wants, and doesn’t have to look back. The slightest bit of fatigue or distraction from the pace, and unit 2 is slowed, as well as 3, 4, etc. The gaps may decrease between units. Some units stop. Some individual soldiers might struggle, or drop something, need to pee, etc.
So the rules of disciplined March, such as cadenced with marching step, leadership running through units, filling the gap, drumming/buggkes, etc are very important, and they only work sometimes, and next to never when everyone is trying to move faster… it has to be exact, or else it will break the bulk of the army off, and it’s logistical flow will open up tidal gaps… seriously insane gaps, in the middle and ends. The troops up front will only care for themselves, arrive just fine. The guts in the middle and back spend minutes to even a hour doing nothing, then sprinting.like crazy, only to stop confused. It breaks them physically.
By adding two lanes, it helps somewhat, but doesn’t help too much… it turns into a game of leapfrogging, especially if the route is a circuit favoring a inner track, giving it a shorter length.
Its one of the problems of non-linear dynamics occurring in a linear system. Any soldier on the planet can tell you this. Squad runs… great. Platoon runs, OK. Company runs… getting a little gay. Battalion runs… nightmare. Brigade runs… looking for a doctors excuse to get out of it. Division level runs, I’m going AWOL. Seriously, I’m not dealing with that crap.
One of the advantages of the rural highway system in the US is we push for straight lines past or over city grids, rarely through. Its mostly straight, and we have too many lanes, so everyone can pick their own speed, relative to the speed limit… right faster, left slower.
Your theory ignores Clausewitz concept of Friction. Your not considering a Entropy of Purpose arising from mismanagement. Anarchism is a fine theory, so long as it doesn’t come into contact with reality. I wouldn’t want a Anarchist to be a electrical engineer, or head of the department of transportation.
Seriously, just don’t. I don’t envy Google trying to figure out how to mass coordinate the inevitable clusterfuck of AI lead highways. It has the idea of slow moving packs down, but haven’t seen it move beyond this, likely because all it’s,programming is based off Army driver less studies, and the army likely hasn’t allowed testing beyond a few dozen vehicles at once, knowing damn well from experience (division level runs) that the system will just collapse, resulting in one hell of a goatfuck as AI vehicles proceed to honk at one another in traffic jams, not knowing why everything is stopped, or how to get it going again. I can’t imagine a line of 2000 army trucks being driven by AIs under real world conditions ever shoeing up. 10, 20, maybe 50. Its just going to snap eventually.
You’ll want to read Onasander’s writings on the psychology of subjective troop movements… he was a Platonic philosopher of the Principate, I’ve nearly finished with a illustrated translation of his work, or Asclepciodotus, who was a Stoic under Posidendonus, who write a mathematical treatise on hypothetical unit movements. Onasander shoes you the pitfalls, while Asclepciodotus demonstrates a pure mathematical approach, with most formations collapsing on simply turning movements if anyone was ever stupid enough to try them.
The Caterpillar Effect fucks all theories that ignores non-linear behavior in linear logistics.