No Guts No Glory - Operational Risk Taking: Gaining and Maintaining the Tempo

摘要

This monograph examines risk and tempo as components of warfighting which areinextricably linked and dependent upon a commander who is capable of assessing and accepting risk. The study analyzes three operational maneuvers (Marne, Anzio, Inchon) and examines the operational commander's ability to accept risk in order to seize and maintain the offensive tempo. The paper also determines whether the operational commander can control the tempo on the AirLand battlefield without possessing risk taking characteristics as an essential quality of his competence.