Military commanders decision making

Healey, Time of My Life, pp. 193-4, 198-9, 224-48, 252 Broadbent, Military and Government, p. 30. Broadbent was Healey s private secretary. For the development of the Ministry of Defence, see Peter Nailor, The Ministry of Defence, 1959-70 , in P. Smith (ed.). Government and the Armed Forces, pp. 9-248, and Adrian Smith, Command and control in postwar Britain defence decision-making in the United Kingdom, 1945—1984 , Twentieth Century British History, 2 (1991), 291-327. 

DoD policy and doctrine are based on a uniformly defined range of low-level exposure. This range must address all military scenarios to appropriately determine policy, doctrine, research, and technological needs. Policy and doctrine should not arbitrarily dictate either the number or percentage of casualties that a commander can or should accept in order to complete a mission. The specific accepted risk should be determined by the commander(s), based on the situation and mission requirements. Operational risk management (ORM) is a fundamental aspect of military decision making. The U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (US ACHPPM) recommends using the ORM framework to define low-level exposures, and thus low-risk exposures. 

As discussed in Chapter 4, many different Army organizations are involved in making decisions about sites where non-stockpile chemical materiel is stored or recovered. Often, the site is a current military base or depot, where the primary decision maker is the base or depot commander. The role of the NSCMP is to develop treatment technology options and offer treatment services to decision makers at these sites. 

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