Army Transformation: A View from the U.S. Army War CollegeDIANE Publishing |
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Army Transformation: A View from the U.S. Army War College Williamson Murray No preview available - 2014 |
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21st century ability achieve acquisition adapt American armed forces Armored Army Transformation Army War College Army’s battalion battlefield Brigade Combat Team capabilities challenges Chief of Staff civilian Cold War communications component concepts continue core competencies critical decisive Defense deploy deployability deployment Division doctrine effective efforts enemy ensure equipment fight focus future global headquarters Heavy Brigade IBCT Ibid improve Infantry installation management institutional Interim Brigade Combat Interwar Period irreversible momentum Joint Vision 2020 leaders leadership Legacy Force Lieutenant Colonel logistics Louis Caldera major maneuver Michael Howard military culture Military Innovation Military Intelligence missions module Objective Force officer corps operations organization organizational political potential Program readiness reconnaissance requirements revolutionary role Shinseki soldiers strategic environment strategic responsiveness surveillance sustaining base tasks theater TRADOC Transformation Campaign Plan U.S. Army U.S. military United States Army units vehicles vision warfare warfighting Williamson Murray
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Page 129 - It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order...
Page 51 - I find in existence a new and heretofore unknown and dangerous concept that the members of our Armed Forces owe primary allegiance and loyalty to those who temporarily exercise the authority of the executive branch of government, rather than to the country and its Constitution which they are sworn to defend. No proposition could be more dangerous.
Page 91 - I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see." "I don't see," said the Caterpillar. "I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly," Alice replied very politely, "for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.
Page 91 - I - I hardly know, sir, just at present - at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
Page 93 - Clausewitz insisted that, the first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish . . . the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature.
Page 91 - I don't see," said the Caterpillar. "I'm afraid I ca'n't put it more clearly," Alice replied, very politely, "for I ca'n't understand it myself, to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing." "It isn't," said the Caterpillar. "Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet...
Page 164 - ... missions extending from humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to peacekeeping and peacemaking to major theater wars, including conflicts involving the potential use of weapons of mass destruction. The Army will be responsive and dominant at every point on that spectrum. We will provide to the Nation an array of deployable, agile, versatile, lethal, survivable, and sustainable formations, which are affordable and capable of reversing the conditions of human suffering rapidly and resolving...
Page 19 - It will be enough for me, however, if these words of mine are judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which happened in the past and which (human nature being what it is) will, at some time or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future.
Page 76 - To organize, train, and equip Air Force forces for the conduct of prompt and sustained combat operations in the air — specifically, forces to defend the United States against air attack in accordance with doctrines established by the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Page 74 - Core competencies are the collective learning in the organization, especially how to coordinate diverse production skills and integrate multiple streams of technologies.
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