Training for decisive action
Subtitle: stories of mission command : collected insights from commanders and leaders on their experiences at the National Training Center
By: Operations Group, US Army National Training Center
Contributors: Combat Studies Institute (U.S.). Press
Publisher: Combat Studies Institute Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781940804002
Subjects: Command of troops; Case studies; Officers; Training of; Military doctrine; Armed Forces; United States. Department of the Army. National Training Center; United States; United States. Army
Other titles: Stories of mission command : collected insights from commanders and leaders on their experiences at the National Training Center
Description: This anthology of senior participants' observations of the Decisive Action Training Environment serves two functions. First, it is explicitly a teaching tool for the operating force to use in preparing commanders and units for an expeditionary future against a hybrid threat. Second, it is itself an artifact, reflecting the current understanding of Army doctrine by its practitioners during a time of turbulence in the force, uncertain resources and a comprehensive re-engineering of that doctrine. For that reason, some usages may not perfectly accord with doctrinal definitions, and others are not found in doctrine at all. We have nevertheless chosen to retain them for the reader's benefit as an indirect lesson on the complexity of the Army's task going forward from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Table of contents: title: The decisive action training environment; title: Intelligence; title: Movement and maneuver; title: Fires; title: Sustainment; title: Protection.