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 | WORKSHOP INTRODUCING INNOVATION AND RISK : IMPLICATIONS OF TRANSFORMING
On 21–22 October 2003, the Institute for Defense Analyses hosted a workshop on the implications of transforming the culture of the Department of Defense (DoD) from the today’s Industrial Age to one more prepared for and accepting of the Information Age. New concept-technology pairings have been the principal focus of forcetransformation efforts, but the broader issue of culture has not received the same level of
attention. The workshop, sponsored by the Office of Force Transformation, was ...Read more > | 52 Pages 286.93 KB |
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 | TRANSFORMING OPERATIONAL ARCHITECTURE FOR THE INFORMATION AGE
Colonel Macgregor was commissioned in the US Army in 1976 after one year at the Virginia Military Institute and four years at West Point. On completion of airborne and ranger training, Colonel Macgregor served in a variety of command and staff assignments including tank company command in a mechanized infantry brigade of the 4th Infantry Division (Mech)
and command of a division cavalry squadron in the 1st Infantry Division (Mech). During Desert Storm, Colonel Macgregor was awarded the bronze ...Read more > | 29 Pages 1.08 MB |
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 | TRANSFORMATION AND THE ARMY SCHOOL SYSTEM
The Army is currently conducting an extensive set of diverse and demanding
operations and it is likely that such operational challenges will continue. As part of its response to these challenges, the Army is
undertaking a process it calls Transformation, which involves reforming
its organizations and operational concepts to improve responsiveness
and lethality. Army Transformation will involve, among
other things, increased use of joint and combined arms capabilities
and the leveraging of ...Read more > | 181 Pages 517.71 KB |
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 | TO WHAT EXPTENT IS THE BRITISH ARMY ABLE TO MEET THE JOINT OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE
New combinations of threat are emerging in a world of increasing global imbalance of wealth, health, powe and resource. The traditional causes of war,God,Gold and Glory, remain extant but the ways of waging war have been transformed by social, economic and political revolutions wrought by and in reaciton to the phenomenon of globalisation. Consequently,the twentieth century witnessed the growth in forms of war that were simultaneously old and new. Whilst the incidence of conventional interstate ...Read more > | 18 Pages 142.02 KB |
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 | THE ANATOMY OF CHANGE : WHY ARMIES SUCCEED OR FAIL AT TRANSFORMATION
For the better part of the last decade, the Army has stared at its navel, stroked its collective chin and grappled with how to fix itself. Three successive Army Chiefs of Staff (Generals Gordon R. Sullivan, Dennis J. Reimer and Eric K. Shinseki) have each endeavored to move the Army forward under the rubric of FORCE XXI EXFOR and now ...Read more > | 30 Pages 141.00 KB |
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 | TRANSFORMING AMERICA MILITARY
Military transformation is the act of creating and harnessing a
revolution in military affairs. It requires developing new technologies,
operational concepts and organizational structures to conduct war in dramatically new ...Read more > | 412 Pages 1.77 MB |
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 | TRANSFORMING TRANSFORMATION, WILL IT CHANGE THE CHARACTER OF WAR
Our inability to predict the future does not mean that we know nothing about it, at least within reasonable bounds. Just as there are constants, so are there trends growing ethnic and religious strife, the reshaping of nation states, shifting and emerging economic centers, the escalating value of information and learning, the proliferation of information
technologies in relatively undeveloped societies and nations and the emergence of global, transnational ...Read more > | 15 Pages 79.05 KB |
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 | OBSERVATIONS ON RECENT TRENDS IN ARMORED FORCES
The Marines have made extensive use of heavy forces in Iraq, starting during the major combat phase in March–April 2003. It is noteworthy that during the major combat phase the 1st Marine Division essentially fought as a mechanized division, with some 150 M 1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) and over 400 Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV 7s) serving as
armored personnel ...Read more > | 16 Pages 131.00 KB |
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 | A REVIEW OF THE ARMY MODULAR FORCE STRUCTURE
Army modularity restructuring the force to produce a supply of directly interchangeable units is the product of a number of experiences and concerns.1 Modularity may be best characterized as the Army institutional response to a host of factors, some stretching back to the early 1990s, that caused the Army to move away from its traditional division based force to a brigade centric ...Read more > | 75 Pages 554.47 KB |
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 | CHINESE RESPONSES TO U.S. MILITARY TRANSFORMATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE
Chinese strategists have avidly consumed U.S. Department of Defense writings over the past 10 years and have keenly observed the changing nature of U.S. national strategy and military transformation. Commentary by People Liberation Army (PLA) experts on Operation Iraqi Freedom suggests that Beijing believes the Pentagon efforts at achieving a Revolution in Military Affairs are not just succeeding, but ...Read more > | 187 Pages 676.26 KB |
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 | REFORMING THE RANKS
In a three ring circus, sometimes the most interesting act is the sideshow. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tries to tame the lions in the center ring that is his strategic review, Congress and the press have devoted most of their attention to highpriced, high profile, high technology weapons and to the sheer size of the military ...Read more > | 9 Pages 133.07 KB |
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