By Kier Elmonairy & Joshua R. Storm
In recognition of the flow of rapid technological alter through which nosotros are living as well as the challenges this alter creates for today’s Army, the Army is taking a number of steps to brand sure that it has the people, ideas, as well as cloth to succeed. From the establishment of a novel cyber branch to the standing upward of Futures Command, the Army has demonstrated a commitment to addressing the problems as well as seizing the opportunities presented past times an increasingly networked world.
However, if nosotros tin characterize the fourth dimension inwards which nosotros alive equally i of rapid technological change, it is also i of strategic uncertainty dissimilar anything seen since the onslaught of the Cold War. Revisionist powers similar PRC as well as Russian Federation are rewriting the boundaries of their neighbors past times strength piece regimes inwards Tehran as well as Pyongyang destabilize their respective regions. In the human face upward of such an array of strategic challenges, is the Army preparing itself to furnish the people as well as ideas needed to succeed inwards this complex novel century?
There is an increasing sense inwards military machine circles that the response to that enquiry is no as well as that is due, inwards no small-scale part, to the service’s recent rails record.[i] While in that location is piddling enquiry that the Army, which has borne the brunt of the wars inwards Republic of Iraq as well as Afghanistan, has performed good at the tactical as well as operational level, in that location is also piddling dubiousness that neither conflict has been brought to a decisive as well as successful conclusion. This has led some to seat a strategic deficit at the highest levels of the Army command structure, resulting from the service’s failure to select, cultivate, retain, utilize, as well as advance officers who have got focused on the strategic rather than the operational as well as tactical aspects of warfare inwards whatsoever systematic way.[ii] While the Army currently has a functional expanse for strategists (FA 59), these officers do non accomplish the rank of full general officeholder as well as their careers typically culminate at Corps G-5 or Army Service Component Command (ASCC) Plans Chief as well as similar assignments.[iii]
The Army as well as the other services have got successfully addressed a similar job inwards the past. In the early on 1980’s, sensing a deficiency inwards its evolution of operationally minded officers, the Army established the Advanced Military Studies Program to develop a cadre of officers who were experts at the operational flat of warfare. The Marine Corps as well as Air Force would move on to flora similar programs.[iv]
Several observers have got suggested that the Advanced Military Studies Program, or something modeled on it, could make the type of strategic thinkers the service needs.[v] The Army fifty-fifty has developed a program, the Advanced Strategic Planning as well as Policy Program, or ASP3, which sends seasoned plain score officers to pursue doctoral degrees inwards a plain of report related to strategy from civilian universities.[vi]
In our view, this starts also belatedly inwards the officeholder career timeline for ii reasons. First, the formulation of national defence strength strategy requires to a greater extent than of an analytical approach as well as different qualities than are required for addressing tactical problems. While tactical problems are largely bounded, solved inside a military machine context, as well as ofttimes amenable to directive style leadership, the formulation of strategy deals with significantly to a greater extent than indefinite job sets.[vii]
This analytical departure is compounded past times a cultural i given that policy formation at the strategic flat is driven to a greater extent than past times consensus as well as coalition edifice than either tactical or operational decision-making. Put differently, military machine leaders at the strategic flat must “speak the language” of their civilian counterparts inwards other agencies,[viii] as well as “frame[] the job of military machine strength inwards a larger national as well as international framework of action.”[ix]
The electrical flow officeholder career timeline as well as Professional Military Education (PME) framework seeks as well as gets tactical as well as operational excellence from its officers. However, relying on the same scheme to advance officers possessing the different qualities as well as analytical skills associated with strategic excellence fifty-fifty piece it does non actively select junior officers for these traits volition non termination inwards a critical volume of strategists at the highest levels of Army leadership. Put some other way, assuming that a scheme geared towards producing tactical excellence volition have got preserved both tactically-suited officers equally good equally strategically-suited ones, without whatsoever witting endeavor at identifying as well as retaining the latter, is probable to neglect to retain many potential strategic experts, especially equally a portion of this population opts-out or is screened out of the electrical flow business office career rails due to its emphasis on tactical skills.
Secondly, the do inside other professions suggests that those with the potential for service inwards positions dealing with the profession’s most far-reaching problems should live identified really early on inwards their careers or before their careers have got fifty-fifty begun. Law is i such profession. Even piece soundless inwards police school, those police students who demonstrate the appropriate qualities compete as well as are selected for judicial clerkships, fellowships, or diverse honors programs at agencies such equally the Department of Justice Honors Program. These clerkships, fellowships, as well as honors programs have got newly graduated lawyers as well as house them inwards positions where they interact with judges, federal prosecutors, as well as agency heads, the “strategists” of the legal world. The novel lawyers so assistance the judges inwards the crafting of judicial opinions, legal memoranda, agency policies, as well as similar products. These interactions sharpen these novel lawyers’ abilities to bargain with highly abstract legal problems as well as concepts as well as prepare them for careers inwards these.
Crucially, these interactions also prepare the novel lawyers to engage with senior members of their profession at a really early on stage inwards their careers, providing a flat of socialization. While clerkships as well as similar positions are non component of some mandatory cursus honorum for success inwards the legal world, a brief survey of the careers of the justices of the US Supreme Court reveals that most of the justices left police schoolhouse for federal clerkships.[x] At the completion of these positions, the gifted immature lawyers volition ofttimes have got jobs at private firms as well as authorities agencies with their police schoolhouse classmates.
Critically, the lawyers who have got component inwards federal clerkships as well as similar programs maintain to rotate betwixt jobs at the highest levels of the legal profession throughout their career. Returning to the Supreme Court for an illustrative example, right away next police schoolhouse Justice Elena Kagan competed for as well as received ii federal clerkships, the minute of which with Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Justice Kagan followed her Supreme Court clerkship with a curt stint inwards a Washington police house before becoming a police professor at the University of Chicago and, later, Harvard. She served inwards the Clinton Administration inwards multiple capacities, became the Dean of Harvard Law School, as well as was made Solicitor General before existence nominated to the Supreme Court herself.[xi] Identified equally potentially well-suited for dealing with law’s most freighted theoretical issues piece soundless inwards police school, Justice Kagan’s selection for ii competitive clerkships changed the entire trajectory of her legal career. This contrasts with the typical police pupil who follows a well-worn path from police schoolhouse as well as internships at a firm, to a junior associate at a house she interned with, to junior partner, as well as so on upward the ladder of the firm’s leadership construction perchance making named partner. Both paths Pb to success. Both paths require exceptional talent as well as determination. But these paths are different, they require different kinds of lawyers as well as the legal profession needs lawyers on both paths so it tin send out the responsibilities given to it past times society.
What follows is a proposal for some other path, a novel Army officeholder career rails intended equally a strategic expert evolution program. Dubbed hither equally the Strategic Staff Focus Track (SSFT), this computer programme takes inspiration from civilian models as well as aims to select, cultivate, utilize, as well as advance officers demonstrating the potential for strategic leadership starting before long before commissioning. The ultimate goal of the SSFT is to make a critical volume of strategic experts who tin serve with traditional command-track officers inwards substitution leadership positions at the highest levels of the Army. This proposal serves equally a give-and-take framework and, piece it is for certain inwards line with Secretary Esper’s statements[xii] on reforming the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act (DOPMA)[xiii] to displace to a talent management based system, this article volition non address interrelated issues such equally the electrical flow career timeline or “up or out.” This proposal is also non most detracting from the Army’s programs for identifying as well as producing leaders who demonstrate tactical as well as operational excellence. Our Army needs those leaders equally good equally strategists to succeed inwards the complex conflicts of the future; this proposal seeks to complement, rather than replace, the Army’s scheme for officeholder management.
SSFT Overview
Through a split evolution rails focused on producing strategic experts, the Army tin augment its electrical flow senior leader population, already highly expert at the tactical as well as operational level, with officers who have got focused on the strategic flat for most of their career. To encounter this goal, a strategic expert evolution computer programme similar the SSFT must seat potential strategic experts early on to maximize evolution time, furnish selectees with focused educational as well as experiential evolution opportunities, as well as contain these officers into substitution staff positions throughout their career. At the same time, SSFT officers must non be inwards a silo. Rather, they should have got sure shared experiences with their traditional command rails counterparts, to ensure that SSFT officers are inculcated with Army culture, as well as also to facilitate cross-pollination of ideas as well as connections betwixt the ii groups. Finally, a strategic expert evolution computer programme should have got multiple “on-ramps” as well as “off-ramps” to allow for effective strength management. Inevitably, some selectees volition neglect to encounter evolution targets or otherwise opt-out of the program, as well as some traditional command rails officers may want to opt-in to the computer programme mid-career. The SSFT nosotros advise hither is designed with these criteria inwards mind, with the overall goal of producing seasoned strategic experts to augment the electrical flow senior leader population inside the Army.
SSFT Phase I – Selection as well as Validation
In the inaugural of all stage of the SSFT, sure commissioning officers would live selected for the computer programme through a competitive exam process, as well as so would live “validated” for continuation inwards the SSFT both through successful completion of iii years inwards a regular Army branch as well as through the completion of a pertinent independent enquiry project.
A competitive exam procedure would serve equally the initial entry indicate into the SSFT for commissioning officers. Although the exact components of the exam as well as their respective weighting would involve to live identified through a deliberate pattern process, the exam should evaluate traditional academic skills similar critical thinking as well as analytical reasoning, knowledge of the Department of Defense’s role inwards national policy, as well as the mightiness to arts and crafts effective responses to determination problems. The exam procedure involve non live solely novel; it could utilize an existing academic skills examine similar the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) equally a primary component, along with split standardized testing on military machine as well as national safety knowledge as well as decision-making. The decision-making portion could live loosely modeled on the essay portion of the Law School Admissions Test, which “presents a determination problem” as well as requires the examinee “to brand a alternative betwixt ii positions or courses of action,” evaluating the response based non upon which course of instruction of activity is selected, but rather on the effectiveness of how the examinee defends the selection.[xiv] An additional do goodness of incorporating either the GRE or GMAT equally a element would live to ensure that SSFT selectees volition live competitive for the civilian graduate programs that they volition pursue during SSFT Phase II, infra.
After existence identified through the exam process, SSFT selectees would live required to consummate 36 months equally a junior officeholder inwards a traditional basic branch. In this manner, SSFT selectees would serve with their peers for the initial iii years of their career. Selectees would soundless move through the normal branching process, attend their branch’s Basic Officer Leader Course (BOLC), as well as so post to a brigade scrap team. This volition furnish SSFT selectees with the same baseline introduction to Army civilization equally regular command rails officers. As junior officers inwards scrap formations, they volition gain an awareness of the critical roles played past times non-commissioned officers as well as soldiers as well as the termination that command decisions have got on these populations. Importantly, this initial flow volition also ensure that SSFT selectees sympathise as well as tin endure the basic rigors of plain operations, given that the upper echelon staffs with which the SSFT selectees volition pass most of their career volition inevitably sometimes deploy as well as operate inwards austere frontwards locations.
Capped at 36 months (inclusive of BOLC), SSFT selectees’ initial tours would live shorter than their traditional counterparts, who ofttimes stay at their initial duty stations until promoted to Captain (typically 48 months from commissioning). The rationale for the abbreviated tour during Phase I is to furnish a baseline of Army sense before returning SSFT selectees to civilian graduate programs inwards Phase II at a similar historic flow as well as with a similar amount of piece of work sense equally their civilian peer counterparts. Moreover, an additional 12 months at the tactical flat is unlikely to make whatsoever additional data most an SSFT selectee that is worth delaying their evolution equally a strategist for that length of time.
Concurrently with this initial 36-month period, SSFT selectees would live required to consummate an independent enquiry projection on a relevant national safety strategy topic. Although the exact requirements would involve to live deliberately crafted, inwards theory, the completed projection would live on par with an undergraduate honors thesis at a selective institution. The enquiry projects could live evaluated past times Army War College or USMA faculty, perchance augmented past times some senior staff officers. Similar persons could also live assigned equally mentors for the independent enquiry project.
Successful completion of the projection would live a prerequisite to continuing on the SSFT; those selectees who neglect to consummate the projection or whose projects neglect to encounter qualitative requirements would revert to the normal officeholder evolution path (since these officers would already live completing the normal substitution developmental (KD) positions equally their peers, they would inwards theory non endure a career set-back). To facilitate a competitive procedure as well as high-quality projects, continuation inwards the SSFT could live express to a fixed proportion or number of selectees, who would live chosen based on the ranking of their projects.
The independent enquiry projection requirement would serve several substitution computer programme pattern objectives. First as well as foremost, because selectees must consummate the projection simultaneously piece serving inwards regular junior officeholder positions, the requirement would ensure selectees have got the dependent plain as well as drive to engage inwards the extra-curricular educational self-development required to create deep strategic thinking. Further, the independent enquiry projection requirement would assist validate the results of the initial SSFT selection past times measure those academic skills that are hard to examine inwards a standardized examination, such equally developing a enquiry plan, as well as drafting as well as revising a comprehensive product. The projection requirement would also furnish the inaugural of all “off-ramp” through which selectees could opt-out of the rails voluntarily as well as through which those who do non demonstrate the enquiry as well as writing skills of a futurity strategic expert would revert to the traditional command track. Finally, inwards years inwards which a pregnant number of SSFT selectees neglect to consummate the project, sure traditional command-track officers could compete to fill upward the remaining slots, such equally those who are conducting independent enquiry equally component of a fellowship program.
In summary, to maintain along the SSFT, during Phase I an officeholder must sit down for a competitive exam piece soundless a cadet as well as so live selected for the computer programme before commissioning. Then, i time commissioned, the officeholder must live “validated” for continued inclusion inwards the computer programme through completion of an initial 36 months with a basic branch, as well as to concurrently consummate an independent enquiry project. Having completed competitive exam-based selection as well as demonstrated their fitness for continued inclusion inwards the program, SSFT selectees would so proceed to Phase II.
SSFT Phase II – Graduate Education as well as Initial Staff Utilization Tour
Phase II is where the evolution for SSFT officers begins to differ dramatically from the traditional officeholder career timeline. Rather than attention a Captain’s Career Course (CCC) as well as returning to a line unit of measurement to prepare for as well as undertake company-level command, SSFT officers would attend a civilian graduate computer programme as well as serve on a senior flat staff. This computer programme is loosely modeled on the electrical flow Joint Chiefs of Staff / Office of the Secretary of Defense / Army Staff Intern Program (“JCS/OSD/ARSTAFF Intern Program”), with longer teaching as well as utilization periods. SSFT officers nether the electrical flow advertisement timeline would live senior First Lieutenants at the start of Phase II as well as mid-grade Captains at the destination of Phase II.
There are a broad diversity of graduate programs as well as institutions that could furnish the desired teaching during this phase, as well as non all SSFT officers would necessarily involve to consummate the same one. Two of the most suitable are likely Master inwards Public Policy (MPP) or Master inwards Public Administration programs. Regardless of the specific score or institution, however, permissible programs should live traditional as well as full-time inwards nature, inwards contrast to the accelerated programs seen inwards some electrical flow fellowship programs. Although in that location is value inwards accelerated programs similar the Master inwards Public Management (completed past times electrical flow JCS fellows), a traditional, full-time computer programme volition furnish SSFT officers with increased exposure to their civilian classmates as well as allow for greater networking opportunities with futurity authorities officials—crucial for military machine strategic experts given the realities of the interagency policy-making procedure as well as the importance of civilian command as well as oversight of the armed forces.
Following completion of their score program, SSFT officers would proceed to consummate a senior-level utilization tour for 2–3 years equally assistants as well as so equally activity officers inside the Joint Staff, OSD, or ARSTAFF. During this period, they would gain critical exposure to the senior-level policymaking process. SSFT officers would live required to brief as well as interact with senior military machine as well as civilian decision-makers, edifice the skills that they volition involve equally senior staff officers during subsequent SSFT phases. Focused evaluation during these positions would live critical; officers identified equally ill-suited to working at these high levels would live removed from the SSFT as well as returned to their initial branches.
The most striking trade-off presented past times this stage as well as SSFT Phase III, infra, is that SSFT officers would forego the fourth dimension spent on battalion staffs as well as inwards company-level command past times their traditional counterparts as well as instead pass additional fourth dimension serving on senior flat staffs. Although battalion staff service as well as fellowship command furnish additional sense inwards small-unit tactics as well as battalion operations, SSFT officers volition already have got basic exposure to these concepts from SSFT Phase I. An additional 36–48 months at CCC as well as inwards these roles would come upward at the expense of early on civilian graduate teaching as well as exposure to senior leaders as well as strategic decision-making, both crucial to developing futurity strategic experts. In this manner, SSFT Phase II is similar to the judicial clerkship model inwards that it would have got officers intentionally forego sure traditional developmental positions to cultivate different qualities.
SSFT Phase III – Basic Strategic Art Program as well as Second Staff Utilization Tour
Following completion of their initial utilization tour, SSFT officers would consummate the Army War College’s 16-week Basic Strategic Art Program (BASP) followed past times a minute utilization tour. This would occur when SSFT officers are mid-grade captains, the fourth dimension inwards which their command-track counterparts are inwards or have got completed fellowship command as well as are proceeding on to broadening assignments. Because civilian graduate teaching is front-loaded for SSFT officers, they could non involve to consummate additional broadening opportunities at this indicate beyond BASP.
Currently designed equally the qualification course of instruction for FA 59 strategists, the Basic Strategic Art Program seeks to equip graduates “with the tools as well as perspective to duo the gap betwixt their tactical/operational background as well as the challenges of operating at the grand-strategic as well as theater-strategic flat of state of war as well as policy.”[xv] As Michael Shekleton has observed, the BASP is a computer programme that could live expanded from its electrical flow role inwards producing FA 59 officers to also develop other officers inwards strategic art. Unlike Shekleton’s proposal, however, which would send officers to BASP next completion of Intermediate Level Education (ILE), our proposed SSFT would send officers good before ILE to allow for additional fourth dimension to create upon the skills garnered from BASP. Finally, at xvi weeks, BASP would live curt plenty to allow SSFT officers to consummate the course of instruction equally good equally their minute utilization tour before advertisement to major.
In their minute utilization tour, SSFT officers would serve for 2–3 years on staffs at echelons ranging from partition to Army Service Component Command (ASCC). At the partition level, for example, the SSFT officers could serve equally an assistant to the partition original of staff. This minute utilization flow would furnish SSFT officers with exposure to operations at these echelons. In improver to skills developed during BASP, SSFT officers would also convey to comport the sense with senior flat decision-making gained during the inaugural of all utilization period. Further, this utilization tour would maintain to create on the broadening grooming SSFT officers gain during their graduate teaching as well as the initial senior-level utilization tour.
SSFT Phase IV – Intermediate Level Education as well as School of Advanced Military Studies
Phase IV brings together SSFT as well as command-track officers to attend resident Intermediate Level Education (ILE) at the Command as well as General Staff College (CGSC). SSFT officers who consummate resident ILE as well as the thesis requirement for the accompanying Masters of Military Art as well as Science Degree (MMAS) would also move on to attend the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) with those command-track officers selected for the Advanced Military Studies Program (AMSP). Resident ILE, a highly competitive course, would involve to live expanded to adjust the relatively small-scale puddle of SSFT officers.
Participation inwards these existing programs would furnish several benefits for SSFT officers. Focused on operational thinking, resident ILE as well as SAMS volition create on the experiences gained from working on senior flat staffs during SSFT Phases II as well as III. Although SSFT officers are existence trained with the destination goal of developing strategic thinkers, an agreement of how military machine operational fine art links tactics to strategy is essential inwards producing effective strategists, peculiarly strategists who must live able to sympathise as well as tin utter the operational linguistic communication of command-track officers. Moreover, participation inwards resident ILE as well as SAMS volition foster the cross-pollination of ideas as well as experiences betwixt SSFT as well as command-track officers.
Optional for command-track students undergoing resident ILE, making the concurrent Master inwards Military Art as well as Science computer programme mandatory for SSFT officers would assist validate the SSFT population as well as ensure that they stay committed to their educational development. The MMAS computer programme requires minimum grades during resident ILE and, importantly, a supervised graduate-level thesis.[xvi] This provides an additional “off-ramp” for SSFT officers who neglect to consummate the thesis, helpful inwards identifying those participants whose enquiry as well as writing skills have got non kept stride with their peers since completing the private enquiry projection during SSFT Phase I as well as the graduate computer programme requirements during SSFT Phase II.
At the same time, successful completion of resident ILE as well as SAMS could serve equally an “on-ramp” into the SSFT for competitive command-track officers who want to transition betwixt the ii pathways, foregoing battalion command inwards favor of to a greater extent than accelerated senior staff positions. This mid-career “on-ramp” could also live used to jumpstart the pipeline of SSFT officers early on inwards the implementation of the SSFT so that junior SSFT officers would have got to a greater extent than senior mentors inside the program. Selection criteria for this “on-ramp” would evaluate the character of writing produced during the CGSC programs, the nature of an officer’s broadening assignments equally a senior Captain, as well as the overall service record. Selection would live especially appropriate for those command-track officers who participated inwards the traditional JCS Intern Program or other broadening assignments that resulted inwards a pertinent master’s score as well as utilization.
SSFT Phase V – Continued Staff as well as Joint Service
Following completion of resident ILE as well as SAMS, SSFT officers would render to serving on upper echelon staffs, rather than the traditional battalion-level KD positions for Majors. These upper echelon positions would live similar to those filled past times command-track AMSP graduates during their utilization tour.[xvii] However, SSFT officers would maintain inwards these positions for several years, whereas command-track AMSP graduates only perform curt utilization tour before returning to the battalion as well as brigade flat for their KD assignments. SSFT officers would rotate betwixt different echelons as well as would assume positions of increasing say-so inside these staffs. They would also compete for as well as participate inwards the Joint Duty broadening positions that the traditional officeholder career rails emphasizes inwards the flow betwixt an officer’s completion of the KD positions for majors as well as battalion command.
SSFT officers would non compete for or consummate battalion command. This is a necessary business office of the SSFT pathway, which sacrifices fourth dimension inwards fellowship command as well as senior battalion staff positions inwards favor of accelerated sense on higher-echelon staffs. Traditional command-track officers, who have got spent most of their careers at the battalion as well as lower echelons, are but ameliorate suited for battalion command due to their years spent mastering small-unit tactics, straight leadership, as well as managing personnel as well as equipment requirements.
By contrast, at the xvi to 18-year window, when traditional officers consummate battalion command, SSFT officers would assume upper-echelon staff as well as Joint Duty positions with significantly-increased responsibility. It is truthful that filling these positions with SSFT officers would give the sack a sure population of command-track officers who may otherwise want these positions equally broadening opportunities. Such displacement should non live seen equally a drawback, however, as well as should instead live used to allow battalion commanders to stay inwards command for longer periods. After all, command-track officers prepare for years for these coveted positions—better to leverage their skills inwards command for a longer flow as well as allow SSFT officers, with their years of high-level staff service, fill upward senior staff positions instead.
SSFT Phase VI – Senior Service College as well as Beyond
In the lastly unique stage of the SSFT, officers would i time again converge with their traditional rails counterparts to attend i of the Senior Service Colleges (SSC). Like the rationale for attention resident ILE as well as SAMS during SSFT Phase III, having SSFT officers attend an SSC volition furnish for cross-pollination of ideas as well as networking betwixt the ii groups.
Following SSC, the ii tracks would essentially merge equally both SSFT, as well as command-track officers compete for the senior staff as well as broadening assignments available at the senior lieutenant colonel as well as colonel ranks. Just equally SSFT officers would non move battalion commanders before inwards their careers, they similarly would non participate inwards the competitive selection procedure for brigade command. However, SSFT officers would live highly qualified for command or deputy command positions at the partition flat as well as above, where the value of tactical expertise diminishes, as well as the demand for strategic depth emerges. This is the destination goal for a strategic leader evolution computer programme similar the SSFT—to make a population of officers with a multi-decade depth of sense at the operational as well as strategic flat who would complement, rather than replace, command-track officers inwards filling the most senior positions inside the Army.
The Army these officers volition Pb is i facing increasingly complex problems at all levels of conflict as well as thence i that requires officers with different science sets. Even equally the Army has already taken steps to ensure that it volition have got the tools as well as technologies demanded past times this uncertain future, it is critical that the Army also ensures that it has the people to succeed past times deliberately developing some of its officers for strategic expertise, inwards the same manner, that the current-command rails emphasizes tactical as well as operational skill. As inwards other professions similar the American legal system, this agency cultivating excellence at all levels of the profession as well as doing so from the early on stages inwards the career timeline.
Captain Kier Elmonairy, U.S. Army. Kier Elmonairy served equally a Scout Platoon Leader as well as Company Intelligence Support Team Leader inwards OEF XII-XIII, Troop Executive Officer, as well as Deputy Strategic Planner at seventh Army. He currently attends the Georgetown University Law Center as well as volition live assigned to the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. He is a pupil editor of the Georgetown Journal of Law as well as Public Policy. This article represents the opinions of the authors alone; it does non correspond the opinions or policies of the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, or the US Government.
Captain Joshua R. Storm, U.S. Army. Joshua Storm served equally a Troop Fire Support Officer, Field Artillery Platoon Leader, as well as Battalion Logistics Officer inwards the fourth Infantry Division. He is a 2018 J.D. graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center as well as volition live assigned to the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He served equally a pupil managing editor on the Journal of National Security Law & Policy for 2017–18.
This article represents the opinions of the authors alone; it does non correspond the opinions or policies of the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, or the US Government.
Notes:
[i] The observers include numerous senior Army officers as well as academics. See, e.g., Major General (Ret.) Robert H. Scales, Are You a Strategic Genius: Not Likely, Given Army’s System For Selecting, Educating Leaders, Association of the US Army Magazine (Oct. 13, 2016), https://innaiyaveli.blogspot.com//search?q=#_ednref2">[ii] See Scales as well as Shekleton, supra Federal Reserve annotation 1.
[iii] Officers selected for FA59 typically move inwards the computer programme equally senior captains or junior majors as well as are counted on to “lead multidisciplinary groups as well as facilitate senior leader determination making past times assessing, developing, as well as articulating policy, strategy, as well as plans at the national as well as theatre levels.” Headquarters, Dep’t of the Army, DA Pamphlet 600–3, Commissioned Officer Professional Development & Career Management, 416–418 (2014).
[iv] Kevin C.M. Benson, Educating the Army’s Jedi: The School of Advanced Military Studies as well as the Introduction of Operational Art into U.S. Army Doctrine, (Mar. 25, 2010) https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/7716/Benson_ku_0099D_11120_DATA_1.pdf?sequence=1.
[v] See, e.g., Shekelton, supra Federal Reserve annotation 1 (suggesting that the 14-week long Basic Strategic Art Program, the pre-requisite course of instruction for FA 59, could live combined with a 12-month utilization at HQDA, ASCCs, or ACOMs to lock inwards the academic gains equally a solution).
[vi] ASP3 is a five- to six-year computer programme taking senior majors as well as junior lieutenant colonels, having them consummate all requirements for a doctorate inwards a strategy related plain of report except the dissertation, consummate either command at brigade or battalion or serve a developmental assignment with a DOD, joint, or service headquarters, followed past times a twelvemonth of piece of work on a dissertation. Jim Tice, Army seeks officeholder for elite military machine studies doctoral program, Army Times, (Feb. 15, 2016) https://innaiyaveli.blogspot.com//search?q=#_ednref7">[vii] See Shekelton, supra Federal Reserve annotation 1.
[viii] See Shekelton, supra Federal Reserve annotation 1 (noting that a vogue to revert to directive style leadership sometimes results inwards the military machine strategist existence “voted off the island” inwards the multi-agency policy formation context).
[ix] Major General William E. Rapp, Civil-Military Relations: The Role of Military Leaders inwards Strategy Making, 45 (3) Parameters 13, 17 (2015).
[x] Current Members, Supreme Court of the United States, https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx (last visited Aug. 23, 2018).
[xi] Id.
[xii] Master Sergeant Brian Hamilton, Talent management enhances total strength readiness, U.S. Army (Apr. 6, 2018), https://www.army.mil/article/203537/talent_management_enhances_total_force_readiness
[xiii] Defense Officer Personnel Management Act, Public Law 96-513, 94 Stat. 2835 (1980).
[xiv] Law School Admission Test (LSAT) Writing Sample, Law School Admission Council, https://www.lsac.org/jd/lsat/prep/writing-sample (last visited Aug. 23, 2018). Unlike the to a greater extent than full general prompts used on the LSAT, the prompts for an SSFT selection exam could live tailored to strategic decision-making at the national level.
[xv] US Army War College, Basic Strategic Art Program, https://csl.armywarcollege.edu/DSLD/BSAP/Default.aspx (last accessed Aug. 23, 2018).
[xvi] U.S. Army Command as well as General Staff College, Master of Military Art as well as Science (MMAS) Program Information, https://usacac.army.mil/sites/default/files/documents/cace/MMAS_handout.pdf (last accessed Aug. 23, 2018).
[xvii] See U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, School of Advanced Military Studies, https://usacac.army.mil/organizations/cace/cgsc/sams (last visited Aug. 23, 2018) (“Following graduation, officers volition to a greater extent than ofttimes than non serve 20 4 calendar month utilization tour inwards critical battle staff positions at a division, corps, or Army Service Component Command.”).
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