Many business leaders are beginning to think about the lessons of the Iraq war. Some questions might be:
- How did the US Forces manage such coordination between the Army, the Navy (Marines) and the Airforce when we can't get any of our silos to talk to each other?
- How did they move so fast - when a "pause" was just a few hours - why can't we move that fast?
- How did they get the initiative and hold it? Why do we merely defend?
- How do they plan when so much is so uncertain? They surely have a bigger logistics and movement problem than we do but they were able to keep their flexibility when we can't.
- How have they been so successful in integrating new technology so well? Why can't we use ours - What do they know that we don't about collaboration?
- How come they have the leaders that I want but can't seem to find?
- How come Non Coms and enlisted men perform so well when my workers are so unmotivated?
Here is a collection of powerful papers (some quite long which are best printed) that tell the story. The story begins in defeat and failure when a group of captains, Majors and Colonels came back from Vietnam determined not to put their Army and the nation through such an experience again. Our 20th century organizational model came from the success of the military in two world wars. Once again it will be worth looking at the intellectual underpinnings of the US Army and Marine Corps to see the network structures for the 21st century that have replaced the traditional Command and control system of the 20th.
This is a browse, save and print collection for the real student
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