Managing Army Change
Force Management Discussion Paper (ASSIGNMENT)
General Instructions
You may use the lessons (please request additional information if needed), readings and references (have been provided) to help you answer the questions. Reference the documents titled "F100 Lessons Overview" for determining if additional topic discussions (lessons) may be needed. Cite the sources you used to answer the discussion topics. Use footnotes (Turabian style) of documentation; do not use parenthetical citations. This includes direct quotations, paraphrases, and summaries of the assigned readings, doctrinal references, or outside sources.
In academic writing, do not use first-person or passive voice.
Read the question thoroughly, and make sure you are answering the question being asked. As you formulate your responses, do NOT provide a simple summation to the question or your opinion. Use evidence (specific examples or concepts) from F100 as part of your answers. Imagine that you are submitting your answers to the first general officer in your chain of command.
Your answers will be typed and double-spaced. Use Times New Roman 12-pitch font and one-inch margins. Type your answers directly into the spaces provided. Write your responses as fully developed sentences and paragraphs. Your answer to each question should be no less than one-half page and no more than one full page.
1. The 2013 Army Strategic Planning Guidance (ASPG) describes an Army that is "globally responsive and regionally engaged -- one building toward a regionally aligned, mission tailored force that can Prevent, Shape and Win now and in the future." To guide this approach, the Army lists four imperatives that form the basis of the Army Campaign Plan:
provide modernized and ready, tailored land force capabilities to meet combatant commanders' requirements across the range of military operations;
develop leaders to meet the challenges of the 21st century;
adapt the Army to more effectively provide land power; and enhance the all-volunteer Army.
Which imperative is the most important and why? Give an example of something that the Army could do to enhance capabilities in that domain.
The development of leaders to meet the challenges of the 21st century is by far the most important imperative in the Army Campaign Plan, for without strong and effective leadership all the other imperatives fall by the wayside. As Gen. Martin E. Dempsey has stated, "Each of us must be a leader of consequence beyond our battalion, our squadron, our ship, and our unit."[footnoteRef:1] This is, as Dempsey implies, the essence of what it means to maintain the Profession of Arms in today's world. Without leadership, neither provision of land power, nor any all-volunteer Army will be effective in meeting the needs of and maintaining the integrity and spirit of mission demanded within the Army. Leadership provides the appropriate backbone of the Army; it provides the fundamental guidance that supports role players in their effort to make right and meaningful decisions both on and off the field of battle. Without it, there is no force within the Armed Forces that can sustain the movements of the machinery. As Hagel notes, the "challenges to our security and prosperity demand America's continued global leadership and engagement, and they require a principled realism that is true to our values."[footnoteRef:2] [1: Martin Dempsey, "Chairman's Strategic Direction to the Joint Force," 2.] [2: Secretary of Defense Speech to NDU (3 April 2013), F101: Strategic Change, 2.]
Thus an example of how the Army could enhance leadership is to emphasize in education and example the core values of integrity, honor, and justice that leaders everywhere hold as ideal -- and make these the basis of the Army Campaign Plan.
2. In the JCIDS process, what is the role of concepts in developing capabilities? As part of your answer, provide an example of how a concept drove an actual capability in one of the DOTMLPF domains.
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