Modern U.S. military leaders tend to adapt the organization to their personal styles, using networking and information processing to tally up a succession of mission achievements over ten years of diverse combat. Yet it brings a top-down command and control (C2) style that Chairman Dempsey aims to reverse back to leaders adapting their preferences to both the mission and the situation at hand. The new Mission Command thrust calls on leaders to understand their organizations’ C2 approach, discern environmental and mission changes calling for a new paradigm, and correctly and promptly adopting a new C2 style. As Mission Command becomes an enduring and adaptable concept, doctrine, education, training, and operations will change with the new C2 throughout the joint force