Fire, Ready, Aim: Developing Intercultural Skills During Officer Formal Education

Abstract

Recent operations in Iraq and Afghanistan underscore the assertion that the US military needs to be able to interact effectively across cultural boundaries. Consequently, there has been a significant effort to emphasize development of intercultural skills in Air Force (AF) professional military education (PME). This paper provides a vector check on recent efforts to energize intercultural curricula across the continuum of officer formal education. Specifically, it examines intercultural curricula at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA), Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), Officer Training School, Air and Space Basic Course (ASBC), Squadron Officer's School (SOS), Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) and Air War College (AWC), analyzing how each program teaches subjects related to building officers - intercultural skills - namely in the areas of cultural awareness, regional understanding and foreign language competency.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 29, 2006
Accession Number
ADA515487

Entities

People

  • Michael D. Rothstein

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Personnel
  • Business Administration
  • Demography
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Instructors
  • Military Education
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Students
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.

Technology Areas

  • Space