The Importance of Rest Reference Material in the Military

Sally Kohn: Going back to the book again to a US infantryman actively engaged in a losing effort can be quite unsettling. She says it is courting disaster to rely on one's personal impressions to provide the solution to complex scenario and then not consider whether one subordinates have the skills to execute that solution so don't sit there stuck in your own brain afraid to ask anybody else or you're gonna lose now as we push through this she says. The SEALs had very limited doctrine and it was a real big weakness for us because if you would never run a certain type of operation before you couldn't refer back to something and say okay here's the method or the written documentation of how