In my narrow experiences, the ROE might as well be the law of God, since the operations in which I helped plan and participate had to be approved by the same authority that promulgated the ROE in the first place. If we didn't conform to the ROE in our operation, it was a non-starter, and there was no room for interpretation by anyone between levels of command. So in all cases in my experiences ROE superseded mission command doctrine every time, which left us with few (and very ineffective) opportunities since ROE is not METT-TC dependent.
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