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 | EMPOWERMENT : A 21ST CENTURY CRITICAL LEADER CORE COMPETENCY
This issue is critical due to the fact that the current and emerging nature of conflict in the 21st century requires leaders that are multifaceted, agile and adaptive. Army leaders at all levels must be capable of executing decentralized operations for extended periods with no direct oversight and possess the talent and skills to lead across the full spectrum of conflict. ...Read more > | 36 Pages 280.64 KB |
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 | ADAPTING OFFICER EDUCATION TO SUPPORT COUNTERINSURGENCY WARFARE
Counterinsurgency is the emerging theory of war in the 21st Century. Given the new nature of war, the Army must adapt its officer entry level education system. In order to achieve the mental agility required of our junior leaders, we need to restructure entry level schooling to fight and win in this unconventional ...Read more > | 27 Pages 297.20 KB |
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 | 21ST CENTURY SENIOR LEADER EDUCATION : UBIQUITOUS OPEN ACCESS LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
The United States Army War College (USAWC) provides an educational network for students attending Senior Service College (SSC) commensurate with the networks of any other Army installation. The resident educational network limits discourse to only Common Access Card (CAC) carrying individuals within the Department of Defense. This restricts traditional university academic discourse and prohibits the use of personally owned or military issued mobile devices to access educational content in the ...Read more > | 32 Pages 624.61 KB |
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 | A TALE OF TWO ARMY DOCTRINES : WHICH WAY FORWARD
This paper examines two strategies for fighting limited wars and attempts to illustrate how the context of the conflict and the ethos of the United States should fashion an appropriate strategy. The two strategies juxtaposed in this paper are Peace Operations and ...Read more > | 36 Pages 475.94 KB |
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 | A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO COUNTERINSURGENCY
This project examines the major counterinsurgency lessons
I learned as a squadron commander responsible for a violent Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad during the surge of US troops in
2007-08. Armed with a new strategy based on population security, American commanders spread out across Baghdad and its
surrounding belts in a final attempt to bring the many different faces of the Iraq insurgency under ...Read more > | 22 Pages 256.62 KB |
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 | YOU ARE FIRED : A DECISION FRAMEWORK FOR RETAINING OR REPLACING COMMANDERS
Institutional leaders take innumerable actions in the course of normal operations. These actions are underpinned by complex decision-making processes that often are not clearly articulated. Few acts are more profound for a leader than that of firing, or removing, a subordinate upon whom the leader relies. Militarily, the decision to remove a commander is even more important because the stakes are lives and fates of ...Read more > | 34 Pages 488.80 KB |
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 | CULTURE WARFARE : A WAR AGAINST CULTURE
The evolution of war and warfare types has transcended all cultures and nations alike. Through this strategic research paper I will shed some light on how a few of these cultures see the enemy (The evil United States) through their lenses. I will address how war has evolved to its current form and the strategic level considerations to combat and defend against an enemy willing to go to any lengths to destroy and terrorize the ...Read more > | 32 Pages 470.76 KB |
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 | EFFECTIVE USE OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION
At strategic, operational and tactical levels there are good and bad examples of the use of strategic communication. Two of the primary reasons for the ineffective application of strategic communication are the lack of a fundamental understanding of strategic communication as a process and the lack of a common definition. This paper will provide a fundamental understanding of strategic communication. It will provide a common definition that will assist practitioners of strategic ...Read more > | 30 Pages 353.15 KB |
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 | DRAFTING A NEW STRATEGY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION
The strategy, authored by the Policy Coordinating Committee (PCC) on Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication, is the first attempt at coordinating Strategic Communication efforts across the interagency community. Although a good start, the current strategy is preoccupied with the war on terror, presents a miss match in mission and
objectives, fails to recognize key strategic audiences and accepts an adversarial relationship with the ...Read more > | 30 Pages 267.42 KB |
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