Eliminating Garrison Mentality from Command Climates
Abstract
In 2015, military cutbacks dominated news headlines with lower numbers of troops, mass lay-offs for civilian employees, and concerns that an Army cut to the bone was spread too thin to be effective. These cutbacks also created a far more insidious concern, one discussed rarely in the press but frequently between Soldiers. The Armys shift from a well-resourced, combat-focused force to an underfunded garrison force reduced the warrior ethos to a petty bureaucracy. Despite the Mission Command concepts introduction in 2012, many brigade and division commanders relegated the idea of enable disciplined initiative to empower agile and adaptive leaders (ADP 6-0, 2012, p. 1), to a field mentality, and replaced it with excessively detailed briefings, micro-managed operation orders and a never say no expectation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 22, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1121449
Entities
People
- Matthew Davio
Organizations
- United States Army Sergeants Major Academy