Brigade Combat Teams: Designed to Design
Abstract
Should the U.S. Army allocate an Advanced Military Studies Program (AMSP) graduate to the Brigade Combat Team's plans cell in light of a decade of doctrinal changes and modularity? This monograph analyzes a decade's worth of change in the U.S. Army, post September 11, 2001. Ten years of combat operations and Army modularity has not only changed the way the Army fights, but how it must think. This monograph presents four recommendations for the Army to consider to close the operational planning gap in the BCT plans cell: (1) expand the AMSP to provide one operational planner per BCT, (2) reallocate the current annual AMPS graduates to provide one per BCT, (3) incorporate the Army's design methodology instruction into the Command and General Staff School curriculum, and (4) provide an operational planners course mobile training team to deploying BCTs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 19, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA546319
Entities
People
- John A. Kelly
Organizations
- United States Army Command and General Staff College