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conflicts will require the right amount of decentralized, trust-based disciplined initiative. This will only

happen if the U.S. Army fully integrates mission command into its culture.

Maj. Gregory Blom, U.S. Air Force, is a total force strategist in the Strategic Plans and Requirements Directorate
Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. He holds a BS from Florida State University and an MA from Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University. Blom is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Weapons School, Air Command and Staff College,
Squadron Officer School, and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He has had combat deployments
in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, and New Dawn.

Notes
1. Ori Brafman, “Agile Leadership” (lecture, U.S. Army
Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS,
21 January 2015).
2. TRADOC Pamphlet (TP) 525-3-1, The U.S. Army
Operating Concept: Win in a Complex World (Fort Eustis, VA:
TRADOC, 31 October 2014), para. 3-4.
3. Army Doctrine Publication (ADP) 6-22, Army Leadership
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office [GPO],
August 2012), 5.
4. Matthias Greune (Lt. Col., German army), email message
to author, 30 January 2015.
5. Eitan Shamir, “The Long and Winding Road: The US
Army Managerial Approach to Command and the Adoption
of Mission Command (Auftragstaktik),” Journal of Strategic
Studies 33(5) (2010): 647, accessed 5 January 2016. doi:10.10
80/01402390.2010.498244.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid., 646.
9. Ibid.
10. Clinton J. Ancker III, “The Evolution of Mission Command in U.S. Army Doctrine, 1905 to the Present,” Military
Review (March–April 2013): 42.
11. Ibid., 43.
12. Ibid., 46.
13. Shamir, “The Long and Winding Road,” 653.
14. Ibid., 652, 655–57, 665–66.
15. Ibid., 655.
16. Sydney Freedberg Jr., “The Army Gropes toward a Cultural Revolution,” Breaking Defense online magazine, 22 October 2014, accessed 5 January 2016, http://breakingdefense.
com/2014/10/the-army-gropes-toward-a-cultural-revolution/.
17. Ancker, “The Evolution of Mission Command,” 51.
18. Tom Deierlien, “June 2014: 11 Timeless Principles of
Leadership (US Army 1948),” Combat Leaders, 5 June 2014, accessed 5 January 2016, http://combatleaders.com/2014/06/05/
june-2014-11-timeless-principles-of-leadership-us-army-1948/;
Field Manual (FM) 22-100 (obsolete), Military Leadership,
(Washington, DC: U.S. GPO, December 1958), 37–53.
19. FM 22-100 (obsolete), Army Leadership: Be, Know, Do
(Washington, DC: U.S. GPO, August 1999), 1-3.

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20. Billy Miller (Lt. Col., U.S. Army, Retired), email message
to author, 8 January 2015.
21. Army Doctrine Reference Publication (ADRP) 6-22,
Army Leadership (Washington, DC: U.S. GPO, August 2012),
1-5.
22. Brafman, “Agile Leadership.”
23. ADRP 6-22, Army Leadership, 5-1.
24. Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner,
Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in
Global Business (London: The Economist Books, 1993), cited
in Angela R. Febbraro, Brian McKee, and Sharon L. Riedel,
eds., Technical Report TR-HFM-120, Multinational Military
Operations and Intercultural Factors (Neuilly sur Seine, France:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Research and Technology
Organization, November 2008), 1-5–1-6