Summary
It occurred only twice in FM 6-22's predecessor, FM 22-100 (also titled Army Leadership)-once in a discussion on organizational leaders, where it states that "failing through want of experience or luck is forgivable"; the other, in an example used to illustrate implied missions.6 The old leadership FM seems to imply that, in the absence of success, an officer might claim bad luck as a plausible excuse.
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On Luck and Leadership
AN ANCIENT TAOIST PARABLE, transmitted by a 13th century Japanese poet, tells the story of a Chinese farmer's son who falls off a horse and breaks his arm. "How unlucky the farmer is," his neighbors think as they pay their condolences. A year later, an army marches into the village and conscripts every able-bodied youth-except for the farmer's son, whose arm is useless. The army takes them all off to war, and they all die. The villagers wonder at how lucky the farmer is.1
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