"... They depend on their small-unit leaders, who contend with an infinite assortment of situations and variables, to understand the mission, evaluate the circu

"... They depend on their small-unit leaders, who contend with an infinite assortment of situations and variables, to understand the mission, evaluate the circumstances carefully, and exercise initiative in the absence of orders. The military's training has undergone painstaking changes over the past decade to produce exactly this kind of soldier ..." What happened to the "Strategic Corporal" vision that was borne from the lessons of Mogadishu? Krulak tried to lower the command level of decision making required in todays complex battleground and called it the "Three block War". From peace keeper to low intensity warfare to full out civil war ~ http://www.cdi.org/friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=1834 http://www.cdi.org/friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?document... "... A strategic corporal is a soldier that possesses technical mastery in the skill of arms while being aware that his judgment, decision-making and action can all have strategic and political consequences that can affect the outcome of a given mission and the reputation of his country ..." Read here how the Aus military is approaching this (pdf, 60Kb) ~ http://smallwarsjournal.com/documents/liddy.pdf http://smallwarsjournal.com/documents/liddy.pdf A measured leadership at the lowest level. A lot like startups.