Accession Number:

ADA561306

Title:

Transformation... Was it Worth It

Descriptive Note:

Strategy Research Project

Corporate Author:

ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA

Personal Author(s):

• Dunleavy, John F.

Report Date:

2012-03-09

Pagination or Media Count:

32.0

Abstract:

In 2003 the Army made the decision to restructure its formations in an effort to be more agile and lethal and to enhance its ability to deploy quickly. The desire was to have a structure that would have several task organized forces able to operate independently in the effort to fight and win our nation s wars and successfully accomplish its national objectives. In doing so, it adjusted the formation around the Brigade Combat Team. These plug and play organizations would have the self sustaining ability for lethality, sustainability, and intelligence. This paper reconciles the many personnel and structural changes the U.S. Army transformed and considers the implication of those changes. By utilizing Peter M. Senge s eleven laws, from his book The Fifth Discipline The Art Practice of the Learning Organization, as a framework for review, this paper examines if the turbulence of these adjustments was beneficial. The paper concludes the Army should swing back the pendulum on several of these decisions to better train its units and develop its leaders, but also to increase its joint capability and enable itself to play bigger in a fiscally restrained environment.

Descriptors:

• *ARMY PERSONNEL
• *DECISION MAKING
• *TRANSFORMATIONS
• INTELLIGENCE
• LAW ENFORCEMENT
• LEADERSHIP
• STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES
• TEAMS(PERSONNEL)

Subject Categories:

• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE