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The contemporary media environment continues to change at an everaccelerating pace, faster than most could have imagined just 10 years ago. This acceleration has significant implications for today’s media outlets and the military. New media is a case in point. It has been described as a ‘combustible mix of 24/7 cable news, call-in radio and television programs, Internet bloggers and online websites, cell phones and iPods’. 1 New media’s meteoric rise and increasing pervasiveness dictate fresh terms for the …
Lieutenant General William B Calwell IV is the Commanding General of the US Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth. Dennis M Murphy is a professor of information operations and information warfare at the US Army War College. He served in a variety of command and staff positions during his 27 years of US Army service. Mr Anton Menning is the media strategist at the US Army Combined Arms Center. He holds a BA from the University of Kansas and an MS from the William Allen White School of Journalism …
Abstract In 1999 General Charles Krulak coined the term ‘strategic corporal’ (i.e., a junior member trained and empowered to make time-critical decisions in response to the dynamic ground fight). In this article, the author examines a similar phenomenon occurring among senior officers, observing that modern technology allows generals to personally engage on the tactical level from remote locations. How the military manages this phenomenon will become a core leadership question in the years ahead. The …
Dr Peter Warren Singer (AB, Princeton University; PhD, Harvard University) is Senior Fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC. He is the youngest scholar named Senior Fellow in Brookings’s 90-year history. He has worked for Harvard University, the International Peace Academy, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In his personal capacity, Singer served as coordinator of the Obama ‘08 campaign’s defense-policy task force. Singer is the …
Abstract British operations leading the Multi-National Division Iraq (South East) (MND (SE)) Iraq were expected by many to be highly successful due to the British Army’s long and distinguished history of successfully prosecuting counterinsurgencies around the globe. However, complacency and hubris, coupled with an inadequate understanding of the mission facing MND (SE) foiled British attempts to achieve success. It was only through a ‘bottom-up’ revision of the British Army’s efforts, led by junior and …
Dr Daniel Marston, FRHistS , is a Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is author of the Phoenix from the Ashes: The Indian Army in the Burma Campaign, 1942-45 , winner of the 2003 Field Marshal Templer Medal, and co-editor of the recent Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare . He has served as a visiting fellow at the Multi-National Forces Iraq …
Abstract This article 1 argues that thinking is more difficult than we might imagine. Explaining the purpose of thinking and examining some of the issues we all face, the author concludes that the Army has problems with thinking. We must address issues with the way we think as individuals, in teams and organisationally if the Army is to become truly adaptive. ... there are no positions in Army or the NAG [non-Army Group] that list critical thinking skills as either a desirable or mandatory requirement. 2 …
Lieutenant Colonel Richard King is an Ordnance Corps officer and is currently the SO1 Thinking Skills Projects in Headquarters Forces Command. He worked in the private sector from 1998 to 2003 and has been researching and teaching ‘thinking skills’ since 1998. He is a graduate of the Royal Thai Army Command and Staff College and holds a Master of Management Studies (in Economics). Lieutenant Colonel King is the desk officer for the ‘Towards a “Smarter” Army’ initiative. … Richard …