By Request: Long-Distance Micromanagement of “Rules of Engagement” [ROE] Interferes with Carrying Out Battlefield Decision-Making, and Potentially Costs Lives

Change my civilian, military - particularly Marine - loving mind. Note: An engagement in Mogadishu, Somalia, 1992, described in _When the Tempest Gathers_ pages 46-61, first introduced me to the folly of "risk-aversion-to-the-nth-degree". But it is by no means the first, or last, example of such behavior.