The US Military Needs Field-Grade Officers Better Prepared for Joint Operations. Here’s One Way to Make that Happen.
E. Aaron Brady, Matthew Schultz, Zach Embers, Timothy Riemann, Kelly Buckner and Andrew Ginther |
April 22, 2020
The global COVID-19 pandemic and response to it have triggered a wave of cascading effects. While much of the focus to date has been on the potential negative impacts on human health, the global economy, and military readiness, the challenges associated with such events offer opportunities to experiment with ideas that can shape the future of learning in the US military. Given the success of some of DoD’s premier educational institutions—to include the US Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS)—in leveraging distance education to continue learning and support real-life planning efforts, despite the COVID-19 outbreak, each of the services should explore other options to exploit information technology to improve the joint education of future leaders. Specifically, DoD should take steps to create a distance-based joint exercise between the services’ advanced schools as a means of enhancing intermediate-level professional military education for field-grade officers.
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