Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
...to violate orders when one thinks it's better like that is at the root of the whole system and pretty much ignored in U.S. writings.
but I can assure you it is or at least was emphatically not ignored in practice by a great many US commanders and leaders.

That's why the current push for mandatory interconnectivity, BFT, PLRS and all that (not to mention UAVs which offer a way to be the 'Commander in the Sky' without hovering overhead in a Helicopter). Guys who as Captains ignored their Lieutenant Colonels or as LTCs ignored their Generals by "turning off their radios" are now Generals and want to make sure that no one does the same thing to them...

The sad thing is that they really ought to be encouraging initiative instead of inadvertently destroying it.