By the Editor – Again as in the preceding article, I ask how do you view mission command or ‘Auftragstaktik’, as the author terms it below? Making things work, focussing on the outcome is writ large in this account of Ascension Island as a critical J1/J4 hub “Without Ascension Island, there would have been no Operation Corporate.” Cdre Mike Clapp, Commander of the Amphibious Task Group 1Franks, Oliver, and Alex Danchev foreword, The Franks Report: Falkland Islands Review (London: Pimlico, 1992) para 265–6 On March of 1982, I had already been selected for promotion to Commander, and as a tempor…
