Enhancing Decision-Making Resilience through Mission Command. The particular case of Ukraine

The purpose of this paper is to present some particularities of mission command during the conflict in Ukraine. Intended as a framework of analysis, it describes the ways in which the involved parties manage warfighting from the perspective of practicing mission command as a method to enhance military effectiveness. Using qualitative methods, combining literature review, critical analysis of relevant resources, comparative analysis and indirect observation, the findings are related to aspects of mission command that are critical for enhancing operational and decision-making resilience, through identifying and examining various situations involving Ukrainian and Russian military forces. At the same time, the results of the study highlight some potential ways of innovating the principle of mission command from the perspective of multi-domain operations.