Bill Lind, a colleague of Boyd’s and the author of one of the classics of maneuver warfare, a book that belongs on every strategist’s bookshelf, Maneuver Warfare Handbook,49 wrote that: Both leadership and monitoring are valueless without trust. The “contracts” … of intent and mission express that trust … that his subordinates will understand and carry out his desires and trust by his subordinates that they will be supported when exercising their initiative.
