THAT ONE MOST IMPORTANT THING: A WHITEBOARD
By War Room August 28, 2020
War College students are at a point of significant departure in their careers, as their post-study assignments will generally put them in rapid-paced, constantly shifting circumstances.
For this Whiteboard we reached out again to several scholars with the following prompt:
What is the most important thing a war college student should learn in their year of study?
Readers are invited to make their own contributions in the comments section.
1. Dr. Christopher Hemmer, Dean, Air War College
When people unfamiliar with professional military education ask me what a war college is, my shorthand answer is a liberal arts school that focuses on warfare. While the liberal arts and warfare may seem an incongruous pair, that combination lies at the heart of the war college mission. Our students come to us well advanced in successful careers across a wide range of specialties. They have reached the point in their careers, however, where their service, organization, or nation has decided that to be successful in the more senior positions they are on-track for, they need to move beyond their specific skill-set and start thinking more broadly about the wider defense and national security enterprises.
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