The Army Capstone Concept: the Army wants your comments

[Bill Jakola]

is engendered by 1919 Personnel and Force Structure system.

Thus you are trying to train an organization that is really not well organized and one that has to adapt on an ad-hoc basis for every war.

Ken,

Spot on with your observation of our Army encumbered with an out of date and unresponsive Personnel and Force Structure system; which is exactly why we are focusing on leader development. As Marc pointed out organizatinal change is difficult to bring about in the short run; however, leadership is within our grasp; and, well developed leaders can overcome systemic short commings.

We may never maximze the promotional or organizational designs, but there is no reason we can't maximize the way we train leaders. To do this requires a strategy, similar to the ALDS, that esablishes a framwork within which we can begin to understand what types of leaders we will require and then agressively build them.

Personally, I'm just assuming that the ALDS is (roughly) what I outlined and I'm waiting for the real meat to come out - the operationalization of it.

Marc also forshadowed our next step to release operationalization annexes that will provide the answer to how we plan to implement the ALDS.

Bill Jakola

"Keep your powder dry!"