Training for Critical Thinking on the Battlefield was developed specifically for Army battlefield commanders and command staff. It was used in an advanced tactics course at the Command and General Staff College, Leavenworth, KA, in the spring of 1999. CTI received an award for one of the five most outstanding SBIR projects in 1999 as a result of this work. The Army training focuses on strategies for building, critiquing, and improving situation models and plans. Purpose refers to an understanding of the higher-level context and objectives within an organization.
Time refers to influencing proactively or anticipating the actions of others, both friend and foe.
The training has been shown to improve performance in experimental tests with active-duty officers at several Naval training facilities. The training has been extended to include teams and use of a decision support system. More details on training evaluation results Publications Army Research Institute, Ft. Leavenworth, KS CTI developed and tested techniques for training Army command staff in situation assessment and critical thinking skills. The training advanced from a classroom, paper and pencil method to an computer-based interactive system available on CD or over the web.