Adopting mission command: developing leaders for a superior command culture

In September 2010, James G. Pierce, a retired U.S. Army colonel with the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S.

Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, published a study on Army organizational culture.

Pierce postulated that "e;the ability of a professional organization to develop future leaders in a manner that perpetuates readiness to cope with future environmental and internal uncertainty depends on organizational culture."e; He found that today's U.S.

Army leadership "e;may be inadequately prepared to lead the profession toward future success."e;The need to prepare for future success dovetails with the use of the concepts of mission command.

This book offers up a set of recommendations, based on those mission command concepts, for adopting a superior command culture through education and training.

Donald E. Vandergriff believes by implementing these recommendations across the Army, that other necessary and long-awaited reforms will take place.