FM 3-0 (Operations) Roll Out

[Tom Odom]

Let's just hope the comparison ends at the marketing level.

I dunno. those flying hockey pucks are kinda like UAS.

[CR6]

Let's just hope the comparison ends at the marketing level.

Why? You don't want to see a sub-title like "Major Potter and the Half-Baked Plan?"

[Cavguy]

Why? You don't want to see a sub-title like "Major Potter and the Half-Baked Plan?"

I have resembled that remark before ....

[Tom Odom]

In 1990-1992, it was the "Jedi Knights" of Desert Storm fame

Now it's Harry Potter baking plans

One wonder's what or who will be the next icon

Tom

[slapout9]

In 1990-1992, it was the "Jedi Knights" of Desert Storm fame

Now it's Harry Potter baking plans

One wonder's what or who will be the next icon

Tom

Tom, it's going to be Chatty Cathy, with the first new COIN theory of "Can We Talk"

[Tom Odom]

Tom, it's going to be Chatty Cathy, with the first new COIN theory of "Can We Talk"

I guess that beats Larry the Cable Guy and "Gir 'R Done"

I must, however, confess I have watched his "Health Inspector" move 3 or 4 times on cable

Tom

[Cavguy]

I guess that beats Larry the Cable Guy and "Gir 'R Done"

Tom

I think Larry the Cable Guy's motto accurately describes the efforts of most units in Iraq, overcoming all the madness down there. In theater, it is probably the most often seen motto spray painted on trucks, guns, tanks, latrines, etc.

[Tom Odom]

I think Larry the Cable Guy's motto accurately describes the efforts of most units in Iraq, overcoming all the madness down there. In theater, it is probably the most often seen motto spray painted on trucks, guns, tanks, latrines, etc.

OK I am choking here from laughing too hard...

I can do this all night...

Tom

[Norfolk]

Hi Norfolk,

Too true! FAS is pushing an FOI case to get all of the material posted on their own site. They're using the FMI 3-0.1 as one of the leads given the buzz about it (at least from what I can see).

Marc

Hi Marc,

If as one may imply from Cavguy's point about keeping FM 3-0 under wraps until it's offically unveiled at AUSA at the end of the month, then it's perfectly understandable. Actually, having grown up (almost literally in some ways - and in others not at all, or even reverting) in an Army in which practically everything was at least Restricted (back then), I can live with US Army pubs being the same way. It's not like you didn't learn to work well in the dark in the Canadian Army anyway. As for FAS, well, I have to admit that I don't have much sympathy for them, and don't really care for some of the things that they do post.

slapout wrote:

Tom, it's going to be Chatty Cathy, with the first new COIN theory of "Can We Talk"

Enjoy the pitch-name while it lasts. When the new edition of FM 3-0 has to be replaced itself when FCS and "Transformation" are "complete" twenty years from now or so, we may end up with names like "Transformation Annie" - or some rather less dignified derivative thereof - to go with the revised doctrine. Given the social/cultural/political trends over the last few decades, something rather cruder may be considered publicly acceptable by then.

[slapout9]

Hi Norfolk, I don't think you were here when this first came up but Tom has a Chatty Cathy doll guarded by some Special Forces Pet Rocks

[Tom Odom]

But lest I be guilty of divergence, it was again refreshing to see Frontier 6 on the blog.

In the light, the most hopeful paragraph was in my opinion:

The 2001 edition didn’t address these realities; ground truth has forced these “revolutionary” changes. The 2008 edition of FM 3-0 will not only incorporate these changes, but also provide a blue print for the future. This impact will be revolutionary; FM 3-0 in the next year will provide the blueprint for a new training strategy, changes in organizational structure to respond to full spectrum operations, and change leader development and professional military education to focus on adaptive and innovative leadership.

Time will tell. We have always had the innate capability to foster adaptive leaders--if we just encourage it and then let it happen...

In that regard, maybe Larry the Cable Guy is our model

Tom

[Norfolk]

Hi Norfolk, I don't think you were here when this first came up but Tom has a Chatty Cathy doll guarded by some Special Forces Pet Rocks

I am rendered speechless...

[slapout9]

Of course there is SBW (Slapout Based Warfare) model.

[Tom Odom]

I am rendered speechless...

yep and I hang out at the local country club's golf course and blow up gophers....

[Ken White]

What did he ever do...

[Tom Odom]

What did he ever do...

he was a squid...

[Ken White]

a Congressman...

Keep on potting 'em...

[marct]

Okay, so when do we see the Thomas the Train rollout? The Little Brigade that Could?!? Personally, I'd stick with Harry Potter .

[slapout9]

Hi marct, I don't know "The Little Brigade That Could" sounds pretty good.

[Tom Odom]

Hi marct, I don't know "The Little Brigade That Could" sounds pretty good.

Was that not the case at Balaclava?

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.