TRADOC Senior Leaders Conference
SWJ / SWC’s Dave Dilegge, Robert Haddick and Dr. Marc Tyrrell will be attending the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Senior Leaders Conference, 18 – 20 August. All three will be live-blogging on SWJ and posting in this forum concerning issues raised and discussed by TRADOC leadership. We will entertain your questions and comments and pass those along to conference attendees. Stay tuned for more background information on the conference.
From US Army Training and Doctrine Command
Small Wars Journal Community - General Martin Dempsey, CG, TRADOC is excited about this opportunity to partner with Small Wars Journal in telling the story of Army institutional adaptation and the role that TRADOC serves as the proponent for leader development, training, doctrine, initial military training, and concept development and integration.
Our TSLC agenda is built around the following objectives that support the conference's "Next Battles" theme and reinforce our focus on the future as our Army prepares to return to a 1:2 BOG/DWELL:
• Examining and discussing TRADOC’s institutional adaptation progress.
• Discussing how the TRADOC Campaign Plan (TCP) is being synchronized and aligned across the lines of operation.
• Exploring and demonstrating the convergence of the TCP and the Army's Enterprise efforts.
• Demonstrating how we will replicate the richness of soldiers' experiences in the fight to the training base.
Over the coming weeks we welcome your comments and questions and encourage you to monitor and provide comment during the live blogging portion of the TSLC.
"Victory Starts Here"
Army Posture Statement 2009
As a starting point - here is the Army Posture Statement 2009.
Good questions and my sensing is they're working
on all that -- the distance learning bit being money dependent...
I think Outcome Based Training is a critical need but will be resisted by many in TRADOC citing cost as a deterrent -- the actual deterrent is that it's not easy, so trainers have to work harder...
Response from TRADOC regarding Sam Liles' question about the future of Army Training
Learning methods will progress as we learn more about a burgeoning field of study called the Human Dimension and we develop better means of training and educating Soldiers and civilians using such techniques as Outcomes- Based Training and Education. We realize that the new generation does not learn and retain the same way we Cold War Soldiers learned. For example, rather than read a scenario to a group of AIT Soldiers about to go through an exercise, we will present the scenario in video format using the Army's gaming engine, Virtual Battle Space 2, so that the scenario becomes more realistic. Gaming allows instructors to develop their own scenarios, scenarios that can be changed in real time, to illustrate points in the lesson--with only a minimal amount of training. Rather than using the old range live fire techniques, we are experimenting with Soldiers moving down a firing range to spot and engage targets as a team--building not only marksmanship but also teamwork. We have moved away from the Cold War ways of training and educating, but we still have a long way to go. As for dL, we are investigating the integration of gaming into dL, and we continue to refine our synchronous and asynchronous learning using blended (an instructor is in the loop) techniques. These new techniques and insights on teaching, training, and retaining information will be especially important as we continue to build our capability to conduct full spectrum operations--offense, defense, and stability or civil support--anywhere along the spectrum of conflict. Wherever we can, we are gleaning better ideas on how to train and educate.
This is really exciting stuff.
This is really exciting stuff. Never before has public dialogue interacted in this way with the senior TRADOC leaders who are currently building our Army and future leaders.
Here is a preview (the first paragraph) of the Army Stand-To message describing this conference. It highlights the TRADOC senior leaders' desire to interact with the public by engaging in this SWJ discussion board. Transparency and public interaction are critical aspects of the TRADOC mission; and, your perspective is important. Since we need to build highly adaptive leaders who are prepared to execute missions over extended time-frames, this conference will provide the first public discussion of how TRADOC plans to develop leaders.
The Stand-To is available this Friday, 14 August at: http://www.army.mil/standto/
"During the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) semi-annual Senior Leaders Conference (TSLC) TRADOC leaders discuss emerging issues and chart the way ahead. Now for the first time, TRADOC will make the conference transparent and seek public interaction by allowing anyone to follow the conversation, contribute comments and ask questions via a Small Wars Journal (SWJ) discussion board. At the 18–20 August conference, two editors and a moderator from SWJ will blog live, providing readers observations and ongoing commentary about the proceedings."
To the Small Wars Journal Community from TRADOC Senior Leaders
Thanks for your participation in our recent senior leader conference at Gettysburg. I was struck by the level of interest and the thoughtful conversations that ensued both leading up to and during the conference. I want to especially thank Dave Dilegge, Robert Haddick, and Marc Tyrell for their live blogging efforts that certainly reinforced our goal to articulate the many efforts currently underway at TRADOC in building a 21st Century expeditionary Army. I look forward to continuing the dialogue and partnership with this esteemed community of professionals.