Gen. Barry McCaffrey: Learn to see down two levels but command down just one

Gen. Barry McCaffrey was one of our
most articulate generals. Here is a comment from his Army War College oral
history:

... battalion command taught
me ... to see down two levels but command down one. When I was a battalion
commander I always knew where my platoons were. I knew everything about what
platoons were doing -- but I was only about giving orders to company
commanders -- period. At every level [of] the chain of command, if you command
down one level and see down two levels, it is not very hard to be effective.

(P. 43)