Mission Control in the Age of Sail

Abstract

Mission command is a command-and-control philosophy characterized by trust between senior and junior leaders and independent execution of orders based around a common understanding of purpose and intent-an extremely challenging an analytical framework for both historians and modern practitioners to use when studying the age of sail in order to produce useful lessons for applying mission command in today's great power competition. It then uses that framework to analyze a case study from the Napoleonic wars.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 29, 2021
Accession Number
AD1136337

Entities

People

  • Joshua D. Weiss

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Case Studies
  • Command And Control
  • Competition
  • Philosophy

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control