The Modern Louisiana Maneuvers - US Army Center Of Military History

on the Army Staff believe that the LAM process
might have some utility for the Army
outside of Force XXI.
Many who served on the Task Force during
its last year, as well as others, believed
that the LAM process and the LAM Task
Force had served the Army well. They also
believed that LAM and the Task Force provided
a capability for continuing to serve
the Army's leadership and for handling
change that many Army leaders did not understand,
appreciate, or use very effectively.
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They were particularly frustrated by the
leadership's apparent indecision about what
they should be doing next and did not understand
why the Army should reject the
support for agile strategic decisionmaking
that the process provided a Chief of Staff.25
Most realized only later that LAM and the
Task Force seem to have represented a management
style more appropriate to the
former Chief of Staff than his successor.
GEN Reimer would manage change by other
means.
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