Is It Time to Change Army Culture?
The following article came from Army, the magazine of the Association of the United States Army.
Our Army needs to rethink how it produces plans and orders during active combat and how it manages its officers.
Our Army’s penchant for overdetailed, hyperscripted planning procedures – resulting in operations orders that are hundreds of pages long – is for dull, unimaginative people who are good at slavishly following a cookbook recipe. It is not for people who possess the spark of combat creativity. It is an American penchant that makes some allied armies laugh at us. It is a gem of military history that great German generals, with two or three key staff officers at their side, wrote operations orders in minutes, using the hood of their personal vehicle as a desk.
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