Weighting the Decisive Operation: Updating Army Leadership Doctrine and Training to Meet the Needs of Our Soldiers and Deliver Decisive Victory.

摘要

The contemporary operating environment (COE) requires the U.S. Army to fulfill more roles and assume more missions than ever before. While strategists may disagree over the preeminence of one threat over another, they can find common ground in describing the COE as volatile, uncertain, complex, and increasingly urbanized. The U.S. Army has successfully exploited technology to maintain battlefield superiority in the past, but the full spectrum of operations requires greater human interaction and a willingness to sacrifice the safety afforded by weapon range standoff in order to develop and sustain necessary relationships with the plethora of actors (non-military and military) operating within the COE. Given this "softer" dimension of the battlefield, the Army would be well advised to ensure its leaders are equipped with the proper interpersonal skills required for success.