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DIALOGUE AND TRUST
Mr. Robert B. Scaife was an instructor/facilitator with the Joint Multinational Simulation Center’s Mission
Command Program, 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Center at Grafenwöhr, Germany, until June 2014.
He holds a B.A. from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and is a Fulbright Scholar. When this article was
written, he was completing an M.A. from Kansas State University and the command and staff curriculum with the
Naval War College.
Lt. Col. Packard J. Mills, U.S. Army, Retired, is a training program management specialist with the Joint
Multinational Simulation Center’s Mission Command Program at the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training
Center at Grafenwöhr, Germany. He holds a B.A. from the University of Washington and an M.A. from American
Military University. Mills served as both an armor and an intelligence officer, and has deployed to Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Notes
Epigraph: General Matthew B. Ridgway, “Leadership,” Military
Review, (October 1966): 49.
1. Army Doctrine Publication (ADP) 6-0, Mission Command
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office [GPO],
2012), 1.
2. John M. Vermillion, “The Pillars of Generalship,” Parameters,
XVII (2)(Summer 1987): 43.
3. Ibid., iv.
4. U.S. Army, Army Leader Development Strategy (ALDS)
2013, (Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 2013), http://
usacac.army.mil/cac2/CAL/repository/ALDS5June%202013Record.
pdf (accessed 31 October 2014), 10.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., 11.
8. Dr. Stephen Covey, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing
that Changes Everything (New York: Free Press, 2006), cited in
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, white paper by Martin E.
Dempsey, “Mission Command,” (Washington, DC: Joint Chiefs
of Staff, 3 April 2012), http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/concepts/
white_papers/cjcs_wp_missioncommand.pdf (accessed 31
October 2014), 6.
9. Raymond T. Odierno, “38th Chief of Staff of the Army
Marching Orders: America’s Force of Decisive Action,” (Washington, DC: Department of the Army, January 2012) http://www.
chapnet.army.mil/pdf/38th%20CSA%20Marching%20Orders%20
( January%202012).pdf (accessed 31 October 2014), 6.
10. Covey, 30.
11. Ibid., 31.
12. U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Mission Command
Center of Excellence, “U.S. Army Mission Command Strategy FY
13-19” (Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Combined Arms Center,
June 2013) http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/Repository/Army_Mission_Command_Strategy_dtd_12June%202013.pdf (accessed 31
October 2014), 4.
13. Donald E. Vandergriff, “Misinterpretation and Confusion:
What Is Mission Command and Can the U.S. Army Make It Work?”
MILITARY REVIEW January-February 2015
United States Army, [AUSA] Institute of Land Warfare, February
2013): 5.
14. Oxford Dictionaries Online, s.v. “dialogue,” http://www.
oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/dialogue
(accessed 17 November 2014).
15. Sgt. Maj. Dennis A. Eger, “NCOs and Mission Command,”
2013 AUSA Mission Command Symposi մ