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Teaching and Learning the Operational Art of War: An Appraisal of the School of Advanced Military Studies

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Published: 2000

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If the US Army is to successfully design campaigns that link tactical battles and engagements to achieving strategic aims, staff officers and commanders must be educated in the theory, history, and techniques of operational art. The purpose of this monograph is to examine whether the current Army system of education, specifically the Advanced Military Studies Program (AMSP), is sufficiently accomplishing this mission. This topic is significant because the international environment and the Army have undergone important changes since the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) was founded in 1982. The current director of SAMS, Colonel Robin Swan, recognized this changed environment in his Director's Vision Statement in 1998, and initiated multiple changes to the curriculum. In conjunction with these changes, this monograph offers a critical appraisal of the school, its curriculum, and its methods of teaching. The bottom line is that the current initiatives at AMSP are an evolutionary step in the right direction. SAMS continues to fill a critical niche in the Army. However, as the Army executes its Transformation Strategy, it is important that SAMS and AMSP also transform. The original vision of SAMS must be melded with the new geopolitical environment and with advances in educational theory and techniques. In this way, SAMS will successfully achieve its goal of teaching and learning the operational art of war.

Teaching and Learning the Operational Art of War

Author: John L. Gifford

Publisher: War College Series

Published: 2015-02-23

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9781296474621

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This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

The Echo of Battle

Author: Brian McAllister Linn

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2007-11-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780674026513

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From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, the wars of the United States have defined the nation. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts in order to prepare for the next clash of arms. In the echo of battle, the army develops the strategies, weapons, doctrine, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee a future victory. In the face of radically new ways of waging war, Brian Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie the army's many visions of warfare up to the present day. He explores the army's forgotten heritage of deterrence, its long experience with counter-guerrilla operations, and its successive efforts to transform itself. Distinguishing three martial traditions--each with its own concept of warfare, its own strategic views, and its own excuses for failure--he locates the visionaries who prepared the army for its battlefield triumphs and the reactionaries whose mistakes contributed to its defeats. Discussing commanders as diverse as Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Colin Powell, and technologies from coastal artillery to the Abrams tank, he shows how leadership and weaponry have continually altered the army's approach to conflict. And he demonstrates the army's habit of preparing for wars that seldom occur, while ignoring those it must actually fight. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, The Echo of Battle provides an unprecedented reinterpretation of how the U.S. Army has waged war in the past and how it is meeting the new challenges of tomorrow.

Toward a Primer on Operational Art

Author: David L. Ward

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Published: 1999

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The 1993 version of FM 100-5 advertises itself as concentrating on the operational level of war. It defines several terms that are used in operational art, but inadequately explains how they relate to one another. The terms and definitions contained in the 1993 version of FM 100-5 do not match the definitions and terms of the characteristics of operational art included in Joint Publication 3.0 Doctrine for Joint Operations published in 1995. These gaps and disconnects in understanding have often led to confusion and hindered the intellectual development of the field grade officer in the U.S. Army. This monograph will answer the research question, "Can an Operational Art Primer be developed to train field grade officers?" in the affirmative. The author will propose a mental framework that allows users to develop a concept of operation at the operational level. It will answer the four requirements of operational art and address the fourteen characteristics of operational art listed in Joint Publication 3.0 Doctrine for Joint Operations. This framework will incorporate General System Theory and allow the user to design a campaign to shock the enemy system. The mental framework consists of considering operational art in three interrelated groups. They are systems, operations and force mixes and composition. Systems, operations and force mixes are melded together to form a conceptual framework. The framework provides the user with what needs to happen when, in order to induce shock into the enemy system and what resources are required. This framework is explained in chapter four. The framework will serve as a memory aid for the SAMS graduate and allow for the education of the non-SAMS or CGSC graduate. It will result in a more efficient battlestaff and the practice of a higher level of operational art.

The Evolution of Operational Art

Author: G. S. Isserson

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Published: 2013

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 9780989137232

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Operational Art - Quo Vadis

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Published: 2000

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Operational art, subject to a transformation of meaning over time, is today more a vaguely defined phenomenon than a clearly defined term. On the whole, the concept of operational art is the result of the hierarchical organization of warfare derived from practical experience rather than the product of a thorough theoretical analysis. This study is designed to empirically approach the nature of the interpretation of operational art through the lens of military history. The focus is an examination of operational art against a background of era-related historical experience to determine the consistency and change in operational art since World War I and the factors responsible. The application of this analysis perhaps will provide practical answers to the challenges of modem warfare. The industrialized, modem war is characterized by a reduction in the significance of purely military factors. Simultaneously, the dependence of warfare on the economic and technological potential of society has increased. The destruction or attrition of military resources is only one factor impacting operational art and its contribution to the decision of war.

Challenge of Adaptation

Author: Robert T. Davis

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1437923844

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Contents: Intro.: The Post WWII Army; Overview; Chap. 1: The Pentomic Era: The U.S. Army and the Conceptual Challenge of the Nuclear Age; The Army and the ¿New Look¿; The Dual-Capability Conundrum; Kennedy Admin.; Chap. 2: Reorienting the Army ¿ After Vietnam: Nixon Admin. and Defense; The STEADFAST Reorg.; Doctrinal Ferment; Meeting the Army¿s Educational Needs; Towards Army 86; Operational Art and AirLand Battle; Chap. 3: A Strange New World -¿ Army after the Cold War: Impact of the Goldwater-Nichols Act; Army of the 1990s; Doctrinal Revision; The New Louisiana Maneuvers; The Debate Intensifies; Force XXI Campaign; Doctrine as an Engine of Change?; From Quadrennial Review to Quadrennial Review.