text: Chapter 3
  3-4. Shared understanding and purpose between commanders, subordinates, staffs, and unified action
  partners. The following principles enable successful mission command:
  * Competence.
  * Mutual trust.
  * Shared understanding.
  * Commander’s intent.
  * Mission orders.
  * Disciplined initiative.
  * Risk acceptance.
  Note. Refer to ADP 6-0 for a detailed discussion of the principles of mission command.
  3-5. Mutual trust, shared understanding, clear intent, mission orders, and disciplined initiative fosters agile
  and adaptive forces. Commanders create and sustain shared understanding and purpose through collaboration
  and dialogue within their organizations and with unified action partners to facilitate unity of effort.
  Commanders provide clear intent and use mission orders to identify information gaps, to describe their
  reconnaissance guidance, assign tasks, and allocate resources. Predicated on the commander’s guidance,
  subordinate units take appropriate actions to develop the situation, answer identified information
  requirements, identify, create, and exploit opportunities, anticipate change, and perform the necessary
  coordination without requiring new orders.
  3-6. The nature of military operations requires responsibility and decision-making at the point of action.
  Mission command demands leaders who can adapt their thinking, their formations, and their employment
  techniques to the specific situation. Mission command demands agile and adaptive Cavalry organizations
  that can develop the situation through action in close contact with the enemy and civilian population to set
  conditions for future success. Although BCT and squadron commanders and staffs must accept that they may
  often have to act despite significant gaps in their understanding, focused reconnaissance and security
  operations answer the prioritized information requirements that seek to eliminate information gaps. The
  resulting combat information and intelligence allow commanders and staffs to make timely adjustments in
  response to changes.
  EXERCISE OF COMMAND AND CONTROL
  3-7. The principles of mission command and the exercise of command and control enable BCT and
  squadron commanders to develop the situation while in close contact with the enemy and civilian populations.
  These help to develop their understanding, visualization, and description of the operational environment,
  also. Through effective information collection and continuous reconnaissance and security operations, BCTs
  develop and sustain the necessary tactical and operational understanding to defeat adaptive and determined
  enemies as well as set conditions to consolidate tactical gains. Reconnaissance and security operations
  improve situational understanding and enable commanders to—
  * Understand the tactical, human, and political dynamics within an area of operations.
  * Visualize operations in the context of mission variables of METT-TC (I).
  * Describe the commander’s decisive operations in time, space, and purpose with a greater degree
  of detail, accuracy, and fidelity.
  * Direct the execution of decisive operations with higher degrees of flexibility, adaptability,
  synchronization, and integration.
  * Lead the BCT to concentrate its strengths against enemy weakness.
  * Assess progress through continuous reconnaissance, monitoring, and evaluation.
  * Modify existing or developing plans and reallocate BCT capabilities or units based on changing
  tactical situations.
  * Achieve tactical depth.
  * Identify and create options to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative.