Mission Command - Realizing Unified Action

摘要

The U.S. Army recently promulgated new ideas about 'mission command' and is seeking to use them as an instrument of cultural change. General Martin Dempsey stated that new ideas emerging from human, historical, and technological contexts can affect understanding, influence behavior, and be a driving force for significant institutional change. Admiral Mullen said that future operational environments require new doctrine, tactics, techniques, procedures, and methods for integrating our actions, both internally and with partners. Army senior leaders recently created an opportunity to develop a culture that will better enable appropriate adaptation to any operational challenge. The goal is a culture that develops leaders who maintain current core competencies while adding competences to prevail in complex environments that require the integration of joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational capabilities. This paper asserts that bolder changes are still needed for mission command to realize unified action - the synchronization, coordination, and integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort. Mission command is emerging as a construct that integrates the functions and techniques of the art and science employed during the exercise of command authority over missions applying military and other instruments of national power.