CSS Teams -- Effective Practice of Mission Command.

摘要

This research will determine why logistics units in the sustainment warfighting function so successfully executed the practice of mission command. It will demonstrate how structural changes and improvements in technology further enhanced and improved a logistics unit's ability to conduct sustainment operations under mission command. Logistical units have operated under a modular construct and as a collection of dispersed teams for years, allowing them to create a support environment that has become part of our Logistics Corps cultural values. Logisticians commonly operate in small teams with junior noncommissioned officers in the lead, carrying out a senior commander's intent by exercising disciplined initiative and conducting decentralized operations. Reorganizing Army logistics units under modularity improved a logistics unit's ability to conduct mission command. The addition of the Forward Support Company, transition from Forward Support Battalion to Brigade Support Battalion, and collapse of the Division Support Command all enhance a logistics unit's ability to conduct mission command. Improvements in technology over the last decade have further enhanced a logistics unit's ability to conduct mission command.