Accession Number:

AD1038875

Title:

Failure to Visualize and Describe Operations: The Evolution and Implementation of the Operational Framework

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report,05 Jul 2016,25 May 2017

Corporate Author:

ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE FORT LEAVENWORTH KS FORT LEAVENWORTH United States

Personal Author(s):

• Bourke,Daniel K.

Report Date:

2017-05-25

Pagination or Media Count:

46.0

Abstract:

Emerging trends from division-level warfighting exercises between 2014 and 2016 highlight the incorrect use of the Armys operational framework to visualize and describe the conventional battlefield, hindering the application of combat power within the operations process. A study of the US Armys operating concepts post-Vietnam AirLand Battle, Full Spectrum Operations, and Unified Land Operations and the US Armys leader development model identifies how the education, training, and experience of field-grade officers at the division level have influenced their use of the operational framework. The cause for incorrect usage originates with the evolution and implementation of the operational framework. A generation of officers trained in the operating concept of Full Spectrum Operations has failed to incorporate the planning of the deep, close, and support areas framework that has emerged in the operating concept of Unified Land Operations. These officers have failed in their incorporation of the framework because they lack the education, training, and experience for the use of the framework.

Descriptors:

• Operational Framework
• doctrine
• field grade officers
• conventional warfare
• stability operations
• battlefields
• military history
• warfare
• asymmetric warfare
• Military commanders
• unconventional warfare
• DIVISION LEVEL ORGANIZATIONS
• military education

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE