The artillery mission that made Truman a criminal and hero

Can't imagine someone so full of themselves in war to put the value of human life over orders in a sutuation where the result could have been needless deaths and the derading of the orignal mission. Not saying blantanly disregarding orders should be the norm, but come on. Great read actually- true leadership right there.

LTC Stephen F. SP5 Mark Kuzinski COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Maj William W. 'Bill' PriceCPL Dave Hoover SSG William Jones Sgt Vance Bonds SGT (Join to see) Cpl (Join to see) SGT Rick Colburn PO1 H Gene Lawrence Maj Robert Thornton PO3 Bob McCord SPC Douglas Bolton CWO3 Dennis M. Lt Col Charlie Brown TSgt Joe C. PO3 Craig Phillips CW5 Jack Cardwell

Truman made mistakes. Don't we all. But this wasn't one of them. Fortunately, he got a good result. Imagine what might have happened if he hadn't. He might never have been President and we would have missed some of his other good decisions, unpopular though they might have been...

If I remember my reading correctly, during the 1973 war in Israel, Syrian forces were in a good position from which to push ahead and take 1 or more important bridges in northern Galilee, but instead, they just stopped - because they had no explicit orders to do so and they weren't allowed to act on their own initiative. This was an important point in the defense of the north against the Syrian invasion.