A New Dependency: Our Addiction to Information and Approval are Killing Mission Command
Rick Montcalm | January 16, 2018
The Army has doctrine and flow charts describing Mission Command. Fort Leavenworth boasts a Mission Command Center of Excellence. The term has supplanted “command and control†as the means leaders use to guide and direct their subordinates’ operations. But, the Army has yet to truly inculcate Mission Command into its leadership culture. After nearly two decades in conflict, the Army has invested billions of dollars in communications platforms that provide the highest levels of command with real-time awareness of the smallest actions at the lowest tactical level. Theater-level command centers can track the icons of moving vehicles, and in some cases individual soldiers, on large format screens in arena-like command centers.
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