GDG- "Inner circle"

[James Cameron]

<< Hooker may have been using "inner circle" as a general descriptive term,
still I wonder if it may have a more specific connotation.  >>

I'm inclined to see it as a general term, rather than a connotation of any 
specific plan.  Lee couldn't move north for too  long without having to make 
a turn to the east, and the AOP would more or less naturally be moving on 
the shorter arc, in closer to Washington as it covered the capital.

Jim Cameron