The "Slinky Effect" in Bosnia During the 1st Infantry's Tenure 1996-June 1997.

Abstract

Current doctrine and strategy is built around an endstate. The 1st Infantry Division found itself in a murky situation where the endstate was not defined. Therefore doctrine failed to present the military planner with the tools to put the Task Force Eagle mission into a neat dogmatic world. The 1st Infantry Division found a method to plan called the "slinky effect". While this method is not prescriptive, it shows how one organization used a flexible/planning method to apply strategy in a non-traditional environment. The current planner's toolbox is inadequate to this task. This paper provides an alternate method with which one division planned.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 03, 1998
Accession Number
ADA342821

Entities

People

  • Joe Robinson

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Case Studies
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Central Europe
  • Civil War
  • Doctrine
  • Geographic Regions
  • Governments
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Military Commanders
  • Military Operations
  • Military Strategy
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Task Forces
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military Science