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CALL Insider Newsletter May-June 2015
CALL Insider Newsletter May-June 2015
Army Doctrine Update (2015) 3-15 (01 JUL 15) 
We are pleased to share some exciting news with our readers about a significant change coming to our Army education system. With the goal of increasing academic rigor, creating greater opportunities for accreditation, and enhancing the quality of the force, the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command is organizing the Army’s professional military education programs into a university system, which will be aptly called The Army University. An explanation of The Army University is provided in this issue of Military Review through a trio of articles that detail the intent and the advantages of this tremendous change. Senator Pat Roberts (Kansas) provides an introduction, followed by substantive articles from Lt. Gen. Robert Brown, Combined Arms Center commanding general, and Command Sgt. Maj. Micheal Clowser, Combined Arms Center–Education. Also proudly showcased in this edition of Military Review is the first in a series of three articles from Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Raymond Odierno, focused on leader development and talent management. These articles are a welcome addition supporting the changes to Army professional education. The July-August issue includes additional articles that support our theme of education in the Army. For example, Col. (retired) Frank Wenzel, the chief of the Army Leader Development Division in the Center for Army Leadership, explains how the Army can effectively enhance leader development through the right combination of training, education, and experience. Along with the advent of The Army University, Military Review and the Combat Studies Institute will combine their resources to form the Army Press. The intent for this enhanced organization is to be more effective at identifying, encouraging, and supporting authors who want their articles, books, and monographs published in Department of Defense and Center of Excellence publications, such as Military Review or other military-related publications, blogs, or websites. I will include more information on the Army Press in future issues of this journal.
Military Review English July-August 2015 Edition
Call For Papers
The Commanding General, Combined Arms Center invites you to submit a paper on the topic of Mission Command for an edited volume. The working title of this edited volume is: Empowering to Win in a Complex World: Mission Command in the 21st Century. In partnership with the online publication, The Bridge, some of the best submissions will also be published online. The linked document provides additional detail on this project.
15-11 Center for Army Lessons Learned Services Handbook
The Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) is an agent for change focused on the collection, analysis, dissemination, integration, and archiving of new concepts, best practices, and doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF) solutions throughout the Army from the tactical through theater/strategic levels of war. This handbook should assist you in understanding CALL and how you and your unit can participate in, and profit from, the lessons learned program.
15-12 The Brigade Engineer Battalion - A Leader’s Guide
Maneuver commanders rely on engineers to add breadth and depth to the overall understanding of the operational environment. The engineer perspective shares a common understanding of the operational environment, while adding a degree of focus on those aspects within an engineering background. The engineer, employing the common analytical framework and a unique technical background, identifies significant and relevant challenges and opportunities of potential impact to the combined arms operation.
15-09 Operation United Assistance - Setting the Theater: Creating Conditions for Success in West Africa
Not since World War II has the U.S. military been required to set the theater in Africa. But even more impressive than the empirical accomplishments are the resiliency demonstrated by the people of Liberia in taking the fight to the enemy and the hope which U.S. and international organizations brought to these wonderful people. This publication represents USARAF's efforts to share lessons from OUA. The common thread is a need to foster the capabilities resulting from innovative leadership and adaptive organizations.
The Army Human Dimension Strategy
Leaders that Thrive in Chaos
The education, training, and leader development systems we have today are not adequate to produce the Army Professionals that we require for tomorrow. Producing these professionals demands a comprehensive Human Dimension Strategy, nested with the Force 2025 and Beyond initiative, and simultaneously oriented on the individual, the team, and the institution. This strategy lays out the ends, ways, and means necessary build the cohesive teams of professionals that the Army will require to win in a complex world.
CALL Insider March - April 2015
CALL continues to support you—the Warfighter—as we execute our Army’s mission. Together we move forward capitalizing on our best practices and learning from our lessons while deployed and at homestation.
At CALL we continue to expand our focus from not only the tactical level of war but across the full spectrum. We have reached out to the ASCCs to see how we can best support them and YOU as your units deploy forward into their theaters of operation.
Some of those highlights are captured in this newsletter as well updates from the training centers, recent publications that are available (hardcopy and digital), and our upcoming work on multinational interoperability.
The Army Vision - Strategic Advantage in a Complex World
The Army of 2025 and beyond will effectively employ lethal and non-lethal overmatch against any adversary to prevent, shape, and win conflicts and achieve national interests. It will leverage cross-cultural and regional experts to operate among populations, promote regional security, and be interoperable with the other military services, United States government agencies and allied and partner nations. Leveraging the Total Force, it will consist of a balanced, versatile mix of scalable, expeditionary forces that can rapidly deploy to any place on the globe and conduct sustained operations within the full range of military operations. Composed of agile and innovative institutions, Soldiers, and Civilians, the United states Army of 2025 and beyond provides strategic advantage for the nation with trusted professionals who strengthen the enduring bonds between the Army and the people it serves.
Our May–June edition includes some great submissions on a wide variety of topics. Brig. Gen. Ronald Kirklin, the 53rd Quartermaster General of the Army and commandant of the Quartermaster School, provides his thoughts on how the Army can best serve its top midgrade officers in “Identifying and Retaining the Army’s Best Midgrade Officers.” 1st Lt. Don Gomez and Staff Sgt. Samuel Heer provide a company-grade perspective on integrating resilience training at the small-unit level in “Operational Resilience in the Infantry Rifle Platoon.” Some other great articles I know you will find fascinating are those by Chris Bowers and Rob Hynes. Maj. Chris Bowers analyzes U.S. operations in Sadr City, which provides lessons for future Army activity in extremely large metropolitan areas in his article “Future Megacity Operations—Lessons from Sadr City.” Lt. Col. Rob Hynes makes a compelling argument against including Department of the Army civilians as part of the Army Profession in “Army Civilians and the Army Profession.” Also, Maj. Kane Wright, Australian army, provides his MacArthur Leadership Award-winning submission, “Great Results through Bad Leaders: the Positive Effects of Toxic Leadership,” in which he delivers a unique perspective on what is normally considered a terrible organizational problem.
Military Review English May-June 2015 Edition
Strategic Business Plan for the Army University
The Army University Strategic Business Plan identifies the ends, ways and means to establish a university within the United States Army. The Army University concept supports the Secretary of the Army (SecArmy) and Chief of Staff of the Army’s (CSA) vision to reinvest and transform our institutional educational programs. This transformation grows leaders’ intellectual capacity to understand the complex contemporary security environment. The Army University creates the learning environment required to produce agile, adaptive and innovative leaders across the Total Force in support of the Army Operating Concept. The result is improved performance, increased readiness, and better led Army, joint, interagency, and multinational task forces.