Mission-type tactics

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Mission-type tactics (German: Auftragstaktik, from Auftrag and Taktik; lit. 'mission tactics'), known in the United States and the United Kingdom as mission command is a style of military command in which a superior gives subordinates a defined objective, the intent behind it and the means to achieve it, but leaves the choice of method to the subordinate. It developed in the Prussian then later German armies during the 19th century then later adopted in modified form by several Western armies from the late 20th century. Despite its name the concept isn't confined to the tactical levels and is not a set of tactics in the English sense. It is better understood as a leadership method, or command culture, that was intended to operate at the operational level as well. Historians disagree about how consistently it was practised even in the German Army, and some argue that modern "Mission Command" doctrines differ substantially from their German antecedent.

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