INVESTING IN WARFIGHTERS IS ARMY PRIORITY
Army squad training
Photo by: U.S. Army/Patrick A. Albright
Fri, 08/05/2022 - 06:50
As the Army pursues its most ambitious modernization effort in decades, people remain at the center of everything, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville said.
“The thing about warfighting is it’s not just about equipment,” McConville said July 28 during the Association of the U.S. Army’s inaugural Warfighter Summit and Exposition near Fort Bragg, North Carolina. “You can’t execute strategy, you can’t execute plans, unless you have great squads, platoons and companies, because they’re the ones who actually do it.”
On the future battlefield, where the Army likely will fight in small units spread across large spaces, the service will need to rely on “great small units.”
To build these small units, leaders must make sure they give troops time to develop individual and small-unit skills. The Army needs soldiers who are “masters of their craft through deliberate practice and through expert coaching,” McConville said.
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