Educational Objectives: The Why Matters

Abstract

The combined pressures resulting from fiscal austerity and a lack of intellectual depth among U.S. military strategic art practitioners provides an impetus to examine the senior-level colleges' role in educating the nation's military leaders. This paper argues for changes to the Officer Professional Military Education Policy (OPMEP) that will effectively guide the services and the senior-level colleges to tailor their professional military education systems to better meet the Department of Defense's human capital requirements. Of these changes, the most significant is to explicitly scope the Joint Learning Objectives and subordinate Learning Objectives, thereby linking educational experience to the force's requirements. A second recommendation is for the OPMEP to mandate that each service implement a periodic roles-based requirements analysis to support the development of scoped educational objectives.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA590757

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  • Matthew R. Seay

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Instructors
  • Learning
  • Mental Processes
  • Military Education
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • Money
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Schools
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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