Gurkha beheads Taliban...

[Polarbear1605]

“Mission tactics (orders) are just as the name implies: the tactic of assigning a subordinate mission without specifying how the mission must be accomplished. We leave the manner of accomplishing the mission to the subordinate, thereby allowing him the freedom and establishing the duty to take whatever steps he deems necessary based on the situation. The senior prescribes the method of execution only to the degree that is essential for coordination. It is the freedom for initiative that permits the high tempo of operations that we desire. Uninhibited by restrictions from above, the subordinate can adopt his actions to the changing situation.” FMFM 1 p.70-71
Sounds to me like the soldier stayed within the bounds of “military necessity” and followed his mission orders. If the commander cannot handle the results…he probably should not be a commander. If the Gurkha soldier was flown back to the UK as reported….it should be to give him a medal vs investigation.
Strategic Legalism…Oh Ya! Breaker Morant, Littleton Tazewell Waller, and now Jeffery Chessani (Haditha Battalion Commander).

Read When Doctrine becomes Dogma here:
http://warchronicle.com/DefendOurMar...ls_PartSix.htm