MISSION COMMAND
Notes
1 . Army Doctrine Publication 6-0 , Mission Command ( Washington , DC : U . S . Government Publishing Office [ GPO ], 2015 ).
2 . Army Doctrine Reference Publication 6-0 , Mission Command ( Washington , DC : U . S . GPO , 2012 ), 2-1 .
3 . Robert Leonhard , The Art of Maneuver : Maneuver-Warfare Theory and AirLand Battle ( New York : Presidio Books , 1991 ), 113 .
4 . Robert Leonhard , Fighting by Minutes : Time and the Art of War ( Westport , CT : Praeger Press , 1994 ), 111 – 19 . 5 . Ibid . 6 . Nathan K . Finney and Jonathan P . Klug , eds ., Mission Command in the 21st Century : Empowering to Win in a Complex World ( Fort Leavenworth , KS : Army Press , 2016 ); Operations Group , U . S . Army National Training Center , Training for Decisive Action : Stories of Mission Command ( Fort Leavenworth , KS : Combat Studies Institute Press , 2014 ); Donald P . Wright , ed ., 16 Cases of Mission Command ( Fort Leavenworth , KS : Combat Studies Institute Press , 2013 ). 7 . Leonhard , Fighting by Minutes , xxii . 8 . Charles C . Krulak , “ The Strategic Corporal : Leadership in the Three Block War ,” Marines Corps Gazette 83 , no . 1 ( January 1999 ).
9 . Department of the Army , Division-Level Communications , 1962-1973 ( Washington , DC : Center for Military History , 1982 ), 40 – 41 .
10 . Williamson Murray , “ Innovation : Past and Future ,” in Military Innovation in the Interwar Period , eds . Williamson Murray and Allan R . Millet ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 ), 308 – 23 .
11 . Ibid ., 308 ; Donald E . Vandergriff , “ Misinterpretation and Confusion : What is Mission Command and Can the U . S . Army Make it Work ?” The Land Warfare Papers , no . 94 ( June 2013 ), 2 – 4 .
12 . Geoffrey Parker , “ The Western Way of War ,” in The Cambridge History of Warfare , ed . Geoffrey Parker ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2005 ), 2 .
13 . Antulio J . Echevarria II , Toward an American Way of War
( Carlisle Barracks , PA : Strategic Studies Institute , 2004 ), vi . 14 . Ibid ., v – vi . 15 . This process is a mental exercise ; the supporting figures are only used to illustrate the process — they are not intended to be prescriptive tools for leaders to assess their situation . 16 . Leonhard , Fighting by Minutes , 114 . 17 . The assumption is that inherent protection will increase the likelihood of the commander ’ s choosing to be more directive because there is a bit less worry about physical security . 18 . George S . Patton Jr ., War as I Knew It ( New York :
Houghton Mifflin , 1947 ), 335 .
WE RECOMMEND
Consider these Combat Studies Institute publications pertaining to mission command .
Mission Command in the 21st Century
Combat Studies Institute , 2016
To view this publication , please visit : http :// armypress . dodlive . mil / files / 2016 / 04 / missioncommand-in-the-21stcentury . pdf .
Training for Decisive Action Stories of Mission Command
Combat Studies Institute , 2014
To view this publication , please visit : http :// usacac . army . mil / CAC2 / cgsc / carl / download / csipubs / TrainingForDecisiveAction . pdf .
16 Cases of Mission Command
Combat Studies Institute , 2013
To view this publication , please visit : http :// usacac . army . mil / Cac2 / cgsc / carl / download / csipubs / Sixteen- CasesOfMissionCommand . pdf .
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