Today marks the second anniversary of 'What Military Commanders Do and How They Do It'. It is still one of the most popular articles in Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies I asked senior commanders how they make decisions. They rely on intuition and critical input. sjms.nu/articles/10.31…

By my IMO colleague Søren Sjøgren tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

“I think we’re overly centralized, overly bureaucratic, and overly risk averse, which is the opposite of what we’re going to need in any type of warfare...” Still, staff tend to develop machine-like bureaucratic behaviour. Why? Learn more below.

“Mission-type orders” are a fundamental principle of Mission Command and indeed the western ideal of manoeuvre warfare.

🛎️Our article on mission command is fresh off the press: sjms.nu/articles/10.31… It's open access via Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies