![]() ![]() ![]() This is the case despite its proclaimed importance to the future vision of the Service environment. However, one area that has received scant attention in the debate is the role of education in the military’s new system of command-that is, mission command. The debate about the quality and role of professional military education (PME) has been much written about across the Armed Forces and the blogosphere. Implanting civilian instructors with more experience in building in time for research and reflection, and requiring writing-an operations order a week is suggested-will help develop the critical thinking mission command demands. ![]() Among areas where PME is found wanting is not allowing students time to think about what they are learning. Accordingly, the Chairman's "conduct of military operations through decentralized execution based upon mission type orders" calls for commensurate professional military education (PME), but the emphasis on relative autonomy has not been as pronounced as needed. ![]() The military's new command system, known as mission command, requires that subordinate leaders at all levels are at once aggressive and disciplined in accomplishing the mission. ![]()
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