Tag: Education
Featured article: Ripples in the Pond: CGSOC Interagency Education by Russell B. Crumrine, Jr. When the U.S. undertakes military operations, the Armed Forces of the United States are only one component of a national-level effort involving all instruments of national power. Instilling unity of effort at the national level is necessarily a cooperative endeavor involving […]
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by Dr. Michelle A. Miller, Mr. James Pennington, and Mr. Billy D. Miller, Jr. As part of the Army University, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) is constantly learning and evolving. This evolution of change is vital to the mission of the college in educating, training and developing leaders in a learner-centric […]
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Featured article: Forging a Counterhybrid Unit by Karl Umbrasas The U.S. military is a highly-educated fighting force. Education in the ranks of the American military traverses both officer and enlisted communities. A college education is a baseline requirement for the commissioned officer corps but not for the enlisted community, which comprises the majority of servicemembers […]
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Featured article: Train with the Brain in Mind: Neuroscience Education as a Force Multiplier by Michael J. Cheatham Ever-increasing lethality and superior technology epitomize the American way of war. However, despite continued investments in technological innovations, military equipment alone has rarely sufficed to ensure victory. Indeed, war is an affair with humans, not hardware. Until recently, […]
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Featured article: Developing a Culture of Questioning or Don’t Tell, Do Ask by Ted Thomas and James Thomas A couple of decades ago, a young basic trainee at Fort Dix, NJ, was carrying a bucket of white paint and accidentally dropped it, causing a sizable splotch in the middle of a road. Fearful of the reaction […]
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Featured article: The Applications of Military Simulations in an Interagency Context by James Gilmore The use of simulation has been a long-standing tradition throughout military history. Planning every minute detail of an important operation is something that comes naturally and has subsequently been honed over the course of repeated use. Only recently has the Army’s […]
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Featured article: The Impact of Worldviews on Training and Education in Iraq and Afghanistan by Ted A. Thomas and Seth George As a civil engineer working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1986, I was assigned as the project engineer for building an F-16 airbase in Beni Suef, Egypt. The airbase was in the final […]
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This week a select group of civilians was invited to participate in the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference (JCOC), an event that has occurred fairly regularly since 1948, where they visited the Pentagon and other military bases to learn first hand from the troops and leaders of the armed services. The week-long conference includes 40 participants […]
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The Combined Arms Center has announced the 2016 General William E. DePuy Writing Competition. This year’s theme is “Educating the Force: What is the Right Balance between Training and Education?” The contest closes July 11, 2016. Possible topics include but are not limited to: Do soldiers really need higher education? If so, to what level? Are […]
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