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1 . Bruce Condell and David Zabecki , eds . and trans ., On the German Art of War : Truppenführung — German Army Manual for Unit Command in World War II ( Mechanicsburg , PA : Stackpole Books , 2011 ), 3 – 4 ; John T . Nelsen II , “ Auftragstaktik : A Case for Decentralized Battle ,” Parameters ( September 1987 ): 21 – 34 , accessed 21 September 2016 , http :// strategicstudiesinstitute . army . mil / pubs / parameters / Articles / 1987 / 1987 % 20nelsen . pdf .
2 . Jim Storr , “ A Command Philosophy for the Information Age : The Continuing Relevance of Mission Command ,” Defence Studies 3 , no . 3 ( 2003 ): 119 , 121 – 22 3 . Condell and Zabecki , On the German Art of War , 18 . 4 . Condell and Zabecki , On the German Art of War , 4 . 5 . Charles C . Krulak , “ The Strategic Corporal : Leadership in the Three Block War ,” Marines Magazine ( January 1999 ), accessed 21 September 2016 , http :// www . au . af . mil / au / awc / awcgate / usmc / strategic _ corporal . htm ; Hans von Seeckt , “ Observations of the Chief of the Army Command Based on His Observations in 1925 ,” United States Military Intelligence Reports : Germany , 1919 – 1941 ( Frederick , MD : University Publications of America , 1983 ), quoted in Condell and Zabecki , “ Editors ’ Introduction ,” 4 .
6 . Richard Gabriel , To Serve With Honor : A Treatise on Military Ethics and the Way of the Soldier ( Westport , CT : Greenwood Press , 1982 ), 13 .
7 . Michel Foucault , Discipline and Punish : The Birth of the Prison ( New York : Vintage , 1995 ), 221 .
8 . Ibid ., 195 – 97 ; Alasdair MacIntyre , After Virtue ( Notre Dame , IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 1984 ), 109 . 9 . Storr , “ A Command Philosophy ,” 126 . 10 . Thomas Kuhn , The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1970 ), 114 , 150 – 51 .
11 . Samuel Huntington , The Soldier and the State : The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations ( Cambridge , MA : Belknap Press , 1981 ), 61 .
12 . Australian Senate Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade References Committee , Procurement Procedures for Defence Capital Projects : Final Report ( Canberra , Commonwealth of Australia : Senate Printing Unit , Parliament House , August 2012 ), xxi .
13 . Jonathan Shay , Achilles in Vietnam : Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character ( New York : Scribner , 2003 ), 17 .
14 . Jeff McMahan , “ Collectivist Defenses of the Moral Equality of Combatants ,” Journal of Military Ethics 6 , no . 1 ( 2007 ): 53 . 15 . H . R . McMaster , Dereliction of Duty : Lyndon Johnson , Robert McNamara , the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam , ( New York : HarperPerennial , 1998 ), 330 .
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16 . Harry Mulisch , Criminal Case 40 / 61 , the Trial of Adolf Eichmann , trans . Robert Naborn ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2005 ), 113 . 17 . Ibid ., 141 . 18 . Charles P . Snow , Public Affairs ( New York : Scribner ,
1971 ), 195 . 19 . Herbert C . Kelman and V . Lee Hamilton , Crimes of Obedience ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1989 ), 46 .
20 . Australian Auditor General Audit Report No . 41 2008-09 , The Super Seasprite ( Canberra , Commonwealth of Australia : Australian National Audit Office , 2009 ), accessed 22 September 2016 , https :// www . anao . gov . au / sites / g / files / net616 / f / ANAO _ Report _ 2008-2009 _ 41 . pdf .
21 . Robert Kempner , Das Dritte Reich im Kreuzvehör : Aus den Uniröffentlichten Vernehmungsprotokollen des Anklagers ( Königstein / Taunus : Athenäum / Droste Taschenbücher , 1980 ), 189 ( Kempner was interrogating Erich Neumann ), cited in Mark Roseman , The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution : A Reconsideration ( London : Folio , 2012 ), 61 .
22 . The Super Seasprite Report , para . 9 . The phrase is repeated at paragraph 1.26 on page 66 .
23 . Ibid ., 278 , para . 10.60 . The idea of “ project failure ” occurs once , in a subheading where the discussion concerns the cost of cancellation .
24 . R . C . Moffitt , Report of the Review of Submarine Workforce Sustainability ( Royal Australian Navy , 31 October 2008 ), 64 – 65 , para . 7.3 , and 13 , para . 3.2.3 , accessed 22 September 2016 , http :// www . defence . gov . au / publications / SubmarineWorkforceSustainability . pdf . 25 . Ibid ., 99 , para . 12.4.2 . 26 . Peter K . Levene et al ., Defence Reform : An Independent Report into the Structure and Management of the Ministry of Defence , also known as The Levene Report ( London : Ministry of Defence , June 2011 ), 21 , para . 4.6 , 4.7 ; and 41 , para . 8.20 , accessed 22 September 2016 , https :// www . gov . uk / government / uploads / system / uploads / attachment _ data / file / 27408 / defence _ reform _ report _ struct _ mgt _ mod _ 27june2011 . pdf . Also , in 59 , para . 13.6 , Levene argues that senior people whose performances fall short should be managed more “ robustly .” 27 . Ibid ., key recommendation 11 , p . 71 , and p . 13 , para . 2.3 . 28 . Simon Raven , “ Perish by the Sword ,” Encounter 12 ( May 1959 ): 37 – 49 , cited in On the Psychology of Military Incompetence ( London : Pimlico , 1994 ), 48 .
29 . James Bond Stockdale , “ Taking Stock ,” United States Naval War College Review 31 , no . 2 ( 1978 ): 2 , accessed 22 September 2016 , https :// www . usnwc . edu / Publications / Naval-War-College-Review / ArchivedIssues / 1970s / 1978-Fall . aspx .
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