Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

happens, communication of that shift to the rest of the team, both up and down the chain of command, ...

could be blamed on “market conditions” or “seasonal discrepancies,” but when the downward trend continued, it ...

of the brief, the CEO asked if I had any questions. “Have you ever heard the military term ‘decisiv ...

hundred percent of your attention for the next few weeks or months?” “It would probably make a huge dif ...

successful techniques so that others could watch and learn. It was a full focus of effort on the highes ...

Sunrise over South-Central Ramadi. An M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle provides cover for American and Iraqi troo ...

CHAPTER 8 Decentralized Command Jocko Willink SOUTH-CENTRAL RAMADI, IRAQ: A RECKONING “We’ve got armed enemy ...

* On the battlefield, I expected my subordinate leaders to do just that: lead. I had ...

platoons would make the right decisions. I unleashed them on the battlefield to execute with full ...

scenarios. The MOUT facility was a multiblock mock city of concrete structures, ranging from simula ...

experience, it became clear that no person had the cognitive capacity, the physical presence, or the knowledg ...

A few months into our deployment, we conducted our largest operation yet. It included two dif ...

Leif and the SEALs of Charlie Platoon had been likewise heavily engaged in constant gun battles with enemy ...

guidance that drove our overwatch operations: Cover as many possible enemy ingress and egress routes as ...

told me what they were going to do. I trusted them to make adjustments and adapt the plan to unfo ...

Once Delta Platoon was in position, their radioman reported, “Building 94 secure. Overwatch positions ...

for nighttime operations, the report came over the radio: “We’ve got armed enemy fighters on top of a buil ...

battlefield, which could confuse and confound even the most experienced Soldiers and SEALs. T ...

“Your guys aren’t in building 79, are they?” the company commander asked me, just to be sure. I ...

guys are seeing.” “We have confirmed: enemy snipers on the rooftop of building 79,” responded the company comman ...