| Summary: | Today‘s military environment requires many states to find ways to develop
capabilities to fight a high-intensity conventional war, to protect and to fight
with scattered forces under the conditions of an effective adversary threat to
include air attacks and modern missile technology. Simultaneously, modern
disruptive technology could deny command structures the ability to maintain
constant communication with their forces on the ground. Such situations in which
subordinates are unable to communicate easily with their superiors might create the
risk of losing the fight initiative or the chance to seize opportunities while awaiting
new orders. These factors emphasize the importance of creating military units that
can fight autonomously, with limited guidance from higher levels of command, by
properly exercising Mission Command (MC) principles. The main goal of this paper
is to analyze the role of education as an enabler to an easier adoption of Mission
Command philosophy, to formulate recommendations regarding the establishment
of a proper organizational culture that favors MC and to highlight the complexity of
implementing MC in practice.
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