THE HUMAN DIMENSION


Trainees go through in-processing during basic combat training at Fort Jackson, SC. Researchers have used cognitive, performance and psychological studies and surveys to place Soldiers in military occupational specialties where they’d have a better chance of succeeding—illustrating TRADOC’s Human Dimension concept, which started in the mid-2000s and focuses on optimizing and enhancing human performance. It is expected to have a significant impact on Force 2025 and beyond. (Photo by SrA Micky M. Bazaldua)


piece—our first commander or second commander at TRADOC noted it took him eight years to get AirLand Battle into doctrine. It took us 18 years to develop— with a failure in the middle, I might add, the M1 tank. It started out as a main battle tank for 1970, and it failed, but then they built one on top of that with the lessons learned from that. But it took us 18 years.


Te thing that drove that was a com- mon view of the problem and a common understanding of what had to be done and what the priorities were. So while each commander of TRADOC and other leaders within the Army added things to the pot of soup, if you will, they were all focused on how we recover the Army from Vietnam, maximize its combat potential, take apart the echelon system of the Soviet Army, etc., at the same time


being agile enough to deal with other challenges. I would note that the Army that was so dramatic in fighting a tank battle in the desert in Desert Storm was also the one, as I mentioned, that just a year earlier knocked out Panama in about three weeks total—three or four weeks from start to finish, but the battle was over within the first couple of days.


So that Army was not by accident. Tat Army was by design. And it demanded the focus of five or six chiefs [of staff of the Army] and as many TRADOC commanders and FORSCOM [U.S. Army Forces Command] commanders and AMC [U.S. Army Materiel Com- mand] commanders to get there. And so that’s going to be one of our challenges going forward,


that process. And it’s true of other services and capabilities ASC.ARMY.MIL 149


as well. You look at stealth and the single-minded focus of the DOD—not just the Air Force, but the DOD—to achieve stealth capabilities in the mili- tary. Cruise missiles is another great example of that. Nuclear submarines— single-minded focus, long-term view and consistent investment in priorities over a very long time. And in the case of stealth and the nuclear submarine, I would note, they still have those same priorities. Te last thing I would say is that the department has yet to prioritize ground force capability in the way that they have uniformly prioritized things like nuclear submarines, stealth and cruise missiles from the beginning.


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CRITICAL THINKING


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