Transforming An Army At War

Author : William M Donnelly,United States Army
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1072574179

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Transforming and Army at War by William M Donnelly,United States Army Pdf

Transforming an Army at War examines the origins of the modular concept, the reasons for undertaking it, and the process for developing modular unit designs. The Army had been exploring the notion of modularity since shortly after the end of the Cold War. Modularity, at its most basic, was the idea for creating a pool of standardized, self-contained units - combat, support, and headquarters - that could plug into (and unplug from) unit formations as needed with minimal augmentation or reorganization. A modular force would greatly improve the Army's ability to configure packages of units tailored for specific missions by the regional combatant commands. This would be the most far-reaching transformation of the operational forces since World War II and the most radical since the Pentomic reorganization of the late 1950s. This account of designing the modular force highlights a critical part of the Army's program to prepare itself for an increasingly turbulent world and illustrates the intellectual and organizational resources the service can call on in that effort.

Author : William M. Donnelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015075617459

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Transforming an Army at War by William M. Donnelly Pdf

Author : William M. Donnelly
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780160867323

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Transforming an Army at War: Designing the Modular Force, 1991-2005 by William M. Donnelly Pdf

Transforming an Army at War examines the origins of the modular concept, the reasons for undertaking it, and the process for develop­ing modular unit designs. The Army had been exploring the notion of modularity since shortly after the end of the Cold War. Modularity, at its most basic, was the idea for creating a pool of standardized, self-contained units—combat, support, and headquarters—that could plug into (and unplug from) unit formations as needed with minimal augmentation or reorganization. A modular force would greatly improve the Army’s ability to configure packages of units tailored for specific missions by the regional combatant commands. By the summer of 2003, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had markedly strained the Army. General Peter J. Schoomaker, chief of staff of the Army as of 1 August 2003, believed that these operations, along with the demands of an open-ended Global War on Terror, called for a major change in how the service organized its forces. In early September 2003, he ordered the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command to begin the process of converting the Army to a modular, brigade-based force. This would be the most far-reaching transformation of the operational forces since World War II and the most radical since the Pentomic reorganization of the late 1950s. The chief of staff identified the 3d Infantry Division, scheduled to return to Iraq in early 2005, as the first formation to change to a modular structure. He also directed that normal force development methods not be used. Instead, an ad hoc group, Task Force Modularity, would draw up the modular force plans. By the time the task force disbanded in February 2005, most of the major design decisions for the modular force had been made and modular brigade combat teams of the 3d Infantry Division had deployed to Iraq. This account of designing the modular force highlights a critical part of the Army’s program to prepare itself for an increasingly turbulent world and illustrates the intellectual and organizational resources the service can call on in that effort.

Author : Theo Farrell,Sten Rynning,Terry Terriff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107044326

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Transforming Military Power since the Cold War by Theo Farrell,Sten Rynning,Terry Terriff Pdf

An empirically rich account of how the West's main war-fighting armies have transformed since the end of the Cold War.

Author : John J. McGrath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:78302861

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Army at War: Change in the Midst of Conflict by John J. McGrath Pdf

These proceedings are the third volume to be published in a series generated by the annual military history symposium sponsored by the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). This year's symposium, hosted by the Combat Studies Institute, was held 2-4 August 2005 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The 2005 symposium's theme was An Army at War: Change in the Midst of Conflict. As this title indicates, presentations at this event focused on how an Army changes while concurrently fighting a war. Changing an Army in peacetime is difficult enough. Transformation can include changes to the personnel system, the turning in old and the fielding of new equipment, new training requirements, and at times, learning an entirely new way of viewing the enemy and the battle space in which operations will occur. Practical and cultural changes in an Army always cause tremendous turbulence and angst, both inside and outside of the Army.

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Peace-building
ISBN : UOM:39015062425239

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Transformation and Strategic Surprise by Colin S. Gray Pdf

The current process of military transformation will enable the Armed Forces to do better what they already do superbly well. It is important to excel at decisive maneuver and in the application of precise, yet overwhelming firepower. But those attributes, though key in warfare against regular enemies, tend to be less valuable in conflict with irregulars. In war after war, the United States has been surprised by the poor political reward it has earned for its military effort. The IT-led transformation will do nothing to help correct the persisting American difficulty in functioning strategically and politically in its conduct of war. The author develops a cumulative seven-point argument.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428916425

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Reshaping the Expeditionary Army to Win Decisively: The Case for Greater Stabilization Capacity in the Modular Force by Anonim Pdf

Today, the U.S. Army is decisively engaged in both fighting an unfamiliar type of war and transforming itself to meet the challenges of future warfare. But what are those challenges? What capabilities does U.S. strategy demand of its military instrument? Where are the major capability gaps, and how should they inform Army Transformation to ensure the future expeditionary Army has the right campaign qualities? This paper argues that the major capability gap in today's force - and vital for future campaigns - is the ability to conduct stabilization. It begins with exploring the changes in U.S. strategy that are the impetus behind the need for greater capacity to conduct post conflict stabilization and reconstruction. Then, it analyzes the emerging role of the Army in post-conflict operations in the context of modern combat to more fully understand the specific requirements of stabilization. The paper then develops an operational concept - progressive stabilization - that complements the Army's concept of rapid decisive operations while improving its ability to contribute to long-term conflict resolution. It outlines three key force attributes an expeditionary force structure must have to provide the requisite mix of combat and stabilization capabilities. Finally, this paper builds on those attributes to suggest three areas where Army leaders must make near-term adjustments in the Modular Force to ensure the nation has a truly expeditionary force with the campaign capacity for both rapid decisive operations and stabilization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428911536

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Transforming Defense by Anonim Pdf

Author : Antulio Joseph Echevarria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Clichés
ISBN : IND:30000139802031

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Challenging Transformation's Clichés by Antulio Joseph Echevarria Pdf

Author : Raymond A. Kimball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : UCBK:C105174750

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Transformation Under Fire by Raymond A. Kimball Pdf

The Bolshevik leaders who built the Red Army from the shattered remnants of the Imperial Russian Army after World War I were far more innovative and pragmatic than usually believed. These men had a clear vision of what they needed from their armed forces and sustained that vision through years of sustained combat. Many of their efforts were squandered, however, when they attacked an enemy that was far different from the forces they had built their Army against. In the end, a force that had triumphed against incredible odds to dominate a substantial portion of the earth's landmass was thrown back and humiliated by a second-rate power. This case study illuminates the dangers inherent in simultaneously conducting sustained combat operations and military transformation. Ominously, many of these same trends are currently manifesting themselves in American military transformation efforts.

Author : John Sloan Brown
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781300079545

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Kevlar Legions: The Transformation of the United States Army 1989-2005 by John Sloan Brown Pdf

This is the story of how the United States Army responded to the challenges of the end of the Cold War by transforming itself into the most capable ground force in the world today. It argues that from 1989 through 2005 the U.S. Army attempted, and largely achieved, a centrally directed and institutionally driven transformation relevant to ground warfare that exploited Information Age technology, adapted to post?Cold War strategic circumstances, and integrated into parallel Department of Defense efforts. The process not only modernized equipment, it also substantially altered doctrine, organization, training, administrative and logistical practices, and the service culture. Kevlar Legions further contends that the digitized expeditionary Army has withstood the test of combat, performing superbly with respect to deployment and high-end conventional combat and capably with respect to low-intensity conflict and the counterinsurgency challenges of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Military planning
ISBN : 9781428911161

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Army Transformation: A View from the U.S. Army War College by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:946236475

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Army Transformation: A View From the U.S. Army War College by Anonim Pdf

As the United States enters a new century, its army confronts the difficult problems associated with transformation in an uncertain world. Moreover, the strategic environment makes it entirely unclear where, or when, or for what strategic purposes U.S. ground forces will find themselves committed to battle in coming decades. Yet, both the strategic environment as well as the harsh lessons of the past have a direct bearing on why the Army has begun the processes of transformation. The study of the past cannot lead to prediction as to the nature and conduct of war in the 21st century, but it does underline that sometime in the future the Army will find itself committed to a major conflict. Moreover, the nature of the current strategic environment suggests the parameters within which the future Army will have to operate. Finally, history is crucial to understanding what factors and approaches might best prepare the Army to meet future threats. This introduction, then, represents an attempt to set out for the reader the issues-past, present, and future-that could best frame the Army's approach to transformation and innovation. The past is crucial to understanding why ground forces will always be essential to achieving the political aims for which wars are fought. Moreover, the current strategic environment indicates that U.S. military forces are going to have to readdress the two old questions of time and distance. The United States cannot escape the geographic realities that two great oceans separate it from much of the rest of the world by two great continents.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428911123

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Transforming America's Military by Anonim Pdf

Author : G. Scott Taylor (Lt.Col.)
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : UCBK:C111815102

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Beyond the Battlefield by G. Scott Taylor (Lt.Col.) Pdf

The Army goes to great lengths to capture lessons learned and preserve these lessons for current practitioners and future generations. Though the Army is one of the most self-critical organizations found in American society, a well-deserved reputation has also been earned for failing to inculcate those lessons by transforming the institutional Army. Change is achieved through a continuous cycle of adaptive innovation, experimentation, and experience. In Iraq, out of necessity while in contact with a dynamic enemy, the Army transformed on the battlefield with radical changes in doctrine, organization, training, and material, which significantly enabled battlefield success. As a result of the withdrawal of troops from Iraq at the end of 2011, this paper analyzes the success of the military's counterinsurgency strategy and nation-building efforts, examines the future of combat which the Army may face in order to recommend a suitable force posture, and makes recommendations for future competencies and capabilities utilizing the problem-solving construct of DOTMLPF in order to ensure future victories in this relevant component of the full spectrum of conflict.