Help me out here, Folks!
How is "disciplined disobedience" required in order to execute effective mission command?
Wouldn't, rather, disciplined obedience be required?
Regards,
Quintessential think tank Bravo Sierra. These people get off on twisting the English language to make them look smarter than you.
Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)
They describe the term in the main article.
To paraphrase, it’s the concept of an officer disobeying a specific order for the purpose of achieving an operational objective. Sort of akin to “the boss ordered us not to do X, but it’ll help us do Y, and the boss values Y more than X.”
It’s a taught doctrine that when local conditions obviate an order from above you instead try to find a better way to accomplish the goal. Do the right thing rather than the ordered thing. It’s how we beat the Germans in WWII.