trust-platoon-commander

"The second was three years later, as a platoon commander at the Infantry Training Centre. I noticed that some platoon commanders were given significant freedom to operate and some were not. Put simply, those who were trusted by their chain of command had the opportunity to act as free agents, genuinely given the freedom to achieve their mission. It was mission command, granted on the basis of trust, or directive control, enforced due to a lack of it."