Training for the Operational Level
Abstract
This article is intended to describe in broad terms the training challenge of building an operational capability in a force with little recent experience in large-unit operations. It focuses mainly on the educational and training aspects of the problem, leaving aside the equally significant questions of force design and doctrinal development. Like other articles on the subject of operations in the US Army, this one is far from being comprehensive. We are just beginning to recapture our operational capability and we are a long way from prescriptions or summations. What we need most now are discussion and an accurate assessment of the requirements generated by the recognition of the operational art. The primary message of this article is that it is not too soon to begin training at the operational level; the Army clearly is behind in the field and must make a concerted effort to expand and to accelerate its current training for the operational level of war. Expanded doctrine certainly will help to guide the Army's efforts, but what really will be necessary to translate concepts into reality is effective training and education. Some of the means of conducting this training are at hand. Others will have to be developed expressly to support operational-level training.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADA521541
Entities
People
- L. D. Holder
Organizations
- United States Army War College