Exercise Design for the Joint Force 2020 Brigade Combat Team (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781503209237)

The Army must prepare its units to employ Full Spectrum Operations (FSO) competencies as part of the Joint Force 2020 in order to generate the desired strategic effects that "prevent" adversaries from escalating conflicts, "shape" the international environment, and, where challenged, "win" decisively and dominantly across the range of conflicts. To ensure its success, the Army must make changes to the National Training Center's (NTC) Contemporary Operational Environment (COE). This paper traces the NTC's evolution, analyses the strategic security landscape from present to 2020, and makes recommendations to optimize the NTC's preparation of Brigade Combat Teams. The main recommendations target the depiction of three of the COE's "operational variables": infrastructure, social, and economic. Accounting for fiscal and other resource-constrained realities, this study finishes with suggestions on how to incrementally implement these ideas, emphasizing "smarter" stewardship over increasingly scarce resources. If employed, these ideas can generate a tailored COE that allows units the most realistic and challenging training experiences short of actual combat.

Author: United States Army War College
ISBN-10: 1503209237
ISBN-13: 9781503209237
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/13/2014
Pages: 58
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.12d