Publications
Mountain Warfare and Cold Weather Operations Leader's Book
Mountains present leaders and units with unique challenges that compound existing difficult combat realities. This handbook addresses the principal gap of informing leaders and staff of the considerations necessary to plan, operate, fight, and win in mountainous terrain at the company level and above. Leaders will find this handbook valuable in prioritizing tasks for training and predeployment planning for any military operations in the mountains.
FY19 Mission Command Training in Large-Scale Combat Operations MCTP Key Observations
Mission Command Training Program trains Army functional/multi-functional/maneuver brigades, divisions, expeditionary sustainment commands, Corps, special operations units, and U.S. Air Force personnel in mission command and large-scale combat operations. This publication provides an overview of the top seven collective trends organized by echelon of command and warfighting function, with additional emphasis on the integration of U.S. Air Force assets, special operations forces, and cyberspace electromagnetic activities. NCO utilization observations are also included to help facilitate the integration of NCOs into command posts. The goal is to increase the readiness of units to plan, prepare, fight, and win in any environment. Winning matters!
CALL Insider Newsletter, 2nd Qtr, FY20
This quarter we have shifted focus to the Army's COVID-19 pandemic response
efforts. We have resources available, and as we validate and review those
resources, we will share those products more widely. We also encourage our
readers to submit observations, lessons, and best practices to us via our
public website. Unit and individual contributions are a key component to
overcoming these current challenges and preparing for the next.
20-12: Commander and Staff Guide to Multinational Interoperability
This guide addresses three key areas to improved multinational interoperability: introducing a common understanding of interoperability; exploring a framework encompassing the human, procedural, and technical domain solutions to improved interoperability; and showing how leaders can integrate "planning for interoperability" within the operations process.
NFTF - Knowledge Managers Perspective
This NFTF is a transcription of the KLI covering various topics ranging from capability gaps requiring leaders to rethink training and skills among KM soldiers, programming or coding skills (not typically found in the U.S. Army training curriculums) and Scrum Master certification.
News From the CTC - BN S1’s Guide for Success at the National Training Center
This article is for all S1s conducting home station training to prepare themselves for a combat training center rotation and combat. Generally, the battalion S1 understands his or her duties and responsibilities in a garrison environment. However, it is often a different story in a field environment where the S1 can be uncomfortable and unsure of the field duties and expectations from his or her command, especially with someone new to the position. This article breaks down the essential S1 functions in a field environment: personnel accountability, strength reporting, casualty reporting, personnel reconstitution, and planning.
NFTF - Multinational Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development: U.S. Army South and the Colombian Army
The Programa Integral Para Suboficiales de Alta Jerarquia (PISAJ) program is a semi-annual event as recorded in U.S. Army South-Colombian Army (COLAR) bilateral staff talks agreed-to-actions through 2023. Specifically, it is a military-to-military engagement with the Colombian Military Joint Sergeants Major Academy. Based on a several desired outcomes for this 12th iteration of PISAJ, U.S. Army South orchestrated and facilitated specialized training to build on senior NCO leader competencies and increase the medical capabilities and knowledge of the COLAR sergeants major. The focus was to educate Colombian joint force senior NCOs on best practices for developing a core curriculum for their future sergeants major academy, support to transformation initiatives, and synchronizing efforts to meet the U.S. Southern Command Theater Campaign Plan.
20-09 - Army Combat Fitness Test (Version 2)
The Army Combat Fitness Test is the means to validate a Soldier and unit’s physical readiness training; it shows how effective this training is in preparing Soldiers for the combat tasks they have to perform. This publication supplements the Army’s physical testing doctrine for the initial operation capability period, Fiscal Year 20, 01 October 2019 to 30 September 2020. The principal audience is leaders at all organizational levels.
NFTF - French Participation in JWA How to Prepare Our Future Together
This article discusses the French Army’s participation since 2018 in the Joint Warfighting Assessment (JWA) series. As part of the strategic bilateral objectives with the U.S. Army’s Strategic Vision Statement, the French Army’s vision is to conduct a lasting and long-term commitment to JWA, because it considers this exercise a key event for improving interoperability at the brigade level, as well as a means for testing new concepts. The author provides the lessons learned from JWA 19 and how this will prepare them for 2020.
20-06: How to Master Wargaming
This handbook focuses on three items: First, how to improve and develop the cognitive skill of visualizing, a key component to COA analysis (wargaming); second, improving the methods and conduct of action, reaction, and counteraction adjudication of COA analysis with off-the-shelf wargames; and third, thoughts on training the staff. COA analysis is similar to any collective skill, and is perishable if not continually trained and rehearsed. Therefore, it is the purpose of this handbook to provide thoughts on how to develop individuals and staffs so they can better conduct COA analysis during the military decisionmaking process.
Army Operational Framework: Organizing the Force for Battlefield Success
This paper describes the Army’s Operational Framework and how its proper use and understanding can improve the commander and staff’s ability to organize assigned forces and apply combat power at decisive points on the battlefield. Using newly published doctrine in Army Doctrine Publication 3-0, Operations, and observations from Warfighter Exercises, this article will:
1) Provide examples of effective use of the operational framework to organize the battlefield.
2) Describe the role of the operational framework within the operations structure.
3) Familiarize the reader with the operational framework, its components, and the importance of assigning and managing subordinate unit areas of operations.
CALL Insider 1st QTR, FY 2020
Latest publications, articles, best practices, and graphic training aids from CALL. This edition also features an article from the National Training Center Commander, Operations Group, entitled "Focusing on the Fundamentals."