text: Chapter 3
  3-4. Because uncertainty, degraded communications, and fleeting windows of opportunity characterize
  operational environments during combat, multidomain operations require disciplined initiative cultivated
  through a mission command culture. Leaders must have a bias for action and accept that some level of
  uncertainty is always present. Commanders who empower leaders to make rapid decisions and to accept risk
  within the commander’s intent enable formations at echelon to adapt rapidly while maintaining unity of
  effort. (See ADP 6-0 for a detailed description of mission command.)
  SECTION II – TENETS AND IMPERATIVES
  3-5. There are no absolute rules for warfare. However, given analysis of the current strategic environment
  and assessments of the best ways to employ Army forces, doctrine emphasizes tenets and imperatives for
  operations that improve their prospects of success without dictating how exactly to solve a tactical or
  operational problem.
  TENETS
  The art of war has no traffic with rules, for the infinitely varied circumstances and
  conditions of combat never produce exactly the same situation twice. Mission, terrain,
  weather, dispositions, armament, morale, supply, and comparative strength are variables
  whose mutations always combine to form a new tactical pattern. Thus, in battle, each
  situation is unique and must be solved on its own merits.
  From Infantry in Battle
  3-6. The tenets of operations are desirable attributes that should be built into all plans and operations, and
  they are directly related to how the Army’s operational concept should be employed. Commanders use the
  tenets of operations to inform and assess courses of action throughout the operations process. The degree to
  which an operation exhibits the tenets provides insight into the probability for success. The tenets of
  operations are—
  (cid:122) Agility.
  (cid:122) Convergence.
  (cid:122) Endurance.
  (cid:122) Depth.
  3-7. The Army provides forces capable of transitioning to combat operations, fighting for information,
  producing intelligence, adapting to unforeseen circumstances, and defeating enemy forces. Army forces
  employ capabilities from multiple domains in a combined arms approach that creates complementary and
  reinforcing effects through multiple domains, while preserving combat power to maintain options for the
  joint force commander (JFC). Creating and exploiting relative advantages require Army forces to operate
  with endurance and in depth. Endurance enables the ability to absorb the enemy’s attacks and press the fight
  over the time and space necessary to accomplish the mission. Depth applies combat power throughout the
  enemy’s formations and the operational environment, securing successive operational objectives and
  consolidating gains for the joint force.