Before reading Warfighting (Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1) I thought business was uncertain and risky and difficult. After reading Warfighting, I now think business is relatively certain, positively safe, and relatively easy.
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More. Warfighting, which is basically an operational philosophy manual, encourages decentralised improvisation by local commanders.
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I challenge that. Downside risk is much worse and that discourages experimentation.
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Russia is the standard for top down war fighting and they’re getting wrecked by Ukrainian forces which have only adopted the western notion of devolving decision making downward. Soviet style command relies on the plan working perfectly.
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Sounds like Russian fighting norms will need to be updated. It's not clear that those decentralized norms became dominant in the US through proactive innovation, but more likely through reaction to failure.
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Accurate:
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More context around the book:
“After Vietnam, all the major services came out with problems, and suffered from dysfunction. So all the services went through introspection. (…) The Marine Corp went through the same process but it was more like a food fight.”
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