Saturday 3 August 2013

How War Command Is Applied In The Army

By Cathy Mercer


War command is a practice, which ought to be exercised continuously so that an army can operate or exist. This definition is positive because it serves to bring out the unique aspects of authority. The few functions that can be carried out either by the army or inside the forces are of benefit in terms of respect, existence and operations.

The need for arises from and varies with the size, complexity and differentiation of an army. A one-man army requires no delegation of instructions, at least not in the sense that a hundred- man army does. An army operating to a single, solid, homogenous block of men would be comparatively simple to authority. A force of any size can be subdivided into several subunits; however, the problem of assigning a mission to each and of ensuring proper coordination among all becomes difficult.

The role of hierarchy increases with the sophistication of the forces which helps account for the attention paid to it. First, delegation of instructions must arrange and coordinate everything an army needs to exist that is its food supply, its sanitary service, and its system of military justice and so on. Second, chain of responsibilities enables the army to carry out its mission, which is to inflict the maximum amount of death and destruction on the enemy within the shortest time and at minimum loss of itself.

Responsibilities are an ability to determine what is true from what is a false, relevant thing from irrelevant, material from immaterial. In this case, authoritative responsibilities can be subdivided into two sectors. They can be determined as functional related and output related responsibilities. There are qualities that make an ideal control system, and they include the ability to gather information accurately, fast, comprehensively, and selectively.

With it, there are some pros that include coordination, harmony and peace among the troops, management of given tasks among the force members, cooperation between the commander and the troop members and also between the troop's members among themselves. The outcomes enable determine the progress of the force.

Though it may be of benefit to the army and the society, there is the other side of the coin.Authority can be the source of enmity between several commanders even in the same force which can cause a lot of dispute and damage. It is to the best interest of every person to know that it is not always that a commander is right. Some do not know how to manage anger or be lenient to the troop members who sometimes defy what they wanted done. Even leaders can be the cause of conflicts.

Differentiating various systems of control can be used to base how the above problems can be solved. The steps taken to deal with the increased complexity, attention paid to both the output related and function related responsibilities, emphasis attributed to any control process and also the strengths and weaknesses displayed are qualities that define the nature of an authoritative system.

War command in itself can be the source of an organized army, and it can also be the source of a disorganized army. It depends on the management and the way of taking responsibilities. Though every time the word war comes up there is fear, it sometimes brings out the best in some people especially the troops and can also be their ruin.




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