Form and Substance
Geoff Metcalf cuts to the quick:
Leaders are responsible for the 'welfare, discipline and tactical deployment' of their troops. That is basic FM22-100 stuff. It is axiomatic. Commanders are godlike. They don't work for higher ranking staff officers, or any non-military anybody. A commander has ONE boss: The commander of the next higher command. A Company commander (a Captain) is not responsible or accountable to a Battalion Major who outranks him. He is responsible to and accountable to the Lieutenant Colonel who is HIS commander.
ANY 'Commander', at any level, who is told they have responsibility for, but not authority over their troops and doesn't have the stones to confront a superior, does not deserve to command.
While politicians and pundits are waxing poetic over the prison flap, the military had best focus on basic leadership.
FM22-100 (Army Leadership) states, "1-22. Character describes a person's inner strength, the BE of BE, KNOW, DO. Your character helps you know what is right; more than that, it links that knowledge to action. Character gives you the courage to do what is right regardless of the circumstances or the consequences."
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