REFLECT
#DAweek Anticipating Transitions to Seize and Maintain the Initiative
By Gary Klein As an observer-coach trainer at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), a recurring after action review comment during decisive action rotations was the training unit’s ability to handle transitions.[1] The hybrid threat...
#DAweek: The Principles and Art of Sustaining Decisive Action
By David Beaumont ‘In war, mistakes and normal; errors are usual; information is seldom complete, often inaccurate, and frequently misleading. Success is won, not by personnel and materiel in prime condition, but by the debris of an organisation...
Decision Point Tactics and Decisive Action
By Ryan Kranc In my 2 years at the National Training Center two things separated good rotational units from great rotational units and opposing forces focused on these differences to achieve the upper hand. Whether mission rehearsal exercise...
#DAweek: How Will We Train for a Hybrid War
By Peter Apps Should tensions with Russia ever “go hot” in Eastern Europe or the Baltic states, the potential consequences could be catastrophic. For all the attention that will inevitably be paid to hotline diplomacy and presidential, however, it...
#DAweek: How Will We Train to Fight and Win in a Complex World?
By: General David Perkins “Military failures are a result of three things: failure to learn, failure to adapt, and a failure to anticipate.” The strength of the United States military – in fact, our asymmetric advantage – is...
My Bid Farewell to the Army Blue
By Daniel Hodne This past November, my family and I returned to West Point, New York, for my Class’ 25th Reunion. While I stood alongside my classmates on “The Plain,” and watched the Corps of Cadets execute a...
Time To Change Mission Command Doctrine
By Regina Parker The Army let me study abroad in China this year to deepen my understanding of international relations, but I have also learned quite a bit about the Army itself. Last week, for instance, I was riding a train through Tianjin when my...
Mission Command and Detailed Command – It’s Not a Zero-Sum Game
By Alan Hastings Recent debate among military professionals on the subjects of mission command and detailed command has highlighted a common misunderstanding about each’s role in tactical operations. While we cannot expect to seize, retain, and...
You Want the Best? Embrace Failure
By Brad Hutchison three The troops were ready: SHARP, OPSEC, SAEDA and CTIP training complete; field sanitation, environmental compliance, and ammunition handling teams trained and identified; all Soldiers who would come within the 385 days of...
Developing Deliberate Practices for Leadership Growth
“You are always practicing something, the question is,- What are you practicing” ...
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