ADP 6-0: Mission Command — Command and Control of Army Forces

Headquarters, D. o. t. A. (2019). ADP 6-0: Mission Command — Command and Control of Army Forces.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2019

Link

https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/Details.aspx?PUB_ID=1007132

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art_aesthetics, political_science

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5 citations across 5 artifacts.

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Primes

• Authority Delegation Under Uncertainty
  • Military Doctrine: Rules of engagement defined before combat to enable soldiers to make lethal decisions without waiting for command approval; delegation of fire authority to junior officers when communications are disrupted, codified in the U.S. Army's mission-command doctrine (ADP 6-0, 2019) as "disciplined initiative within the commander's intent."

    This sourceHeadquarters, Department of the Army. Capstone doctrine codifying the seven mission-command principles, including disciplined initiative within the commander's intent

• Lead-and-Support Hierarchy
  • Military command and liturgy: commander's intent with supporting staff functions (intel, logistics, fires, comms) coordinated to support rather than compete
• Local Autonomy & Tiered Escalation
  • Escalation Triggers. Escalation is triggered by scope, expertise gap, or authority ceiling, paralleling the conditions under which the U.S. Army's mission command doctrine (ADP 6-0, 2019) prescribes referral to higher echelons.
• Mission Command
  • Military doctrine. Auftragstaktik in the Prussian and German tradition; mission command and commander's intent in modern doctrine — designed explicitly to keep functioning under fog and friction when communications fail or the situation outpaces orders.

    This sourceModern doctrinal statement of mission command and commander's intent; references the German Auftragstaktik (mission-type tactics) tradition.

• Rules Of Engagement
  • The rules work only when the operator understands the principal's intent well enough to fill the inevitable gaps between rule and situation, which is why military doctrine pairs the rules with commander's intent, clinical protocols with clinical judgement, content moderation with policy rationale, and parental delegation with values.

    This sourceDefines commander's intent as the concise expression of purpose that lets subordinates exercise disciplined initiative and extrapolate across gaps in orders.

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