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tions, or mobilization and deployment. I would also like you to consider these exercises as "skunk works"-now playing software "games within games" with leap-ahead combat equipment, C3I, TTP, and so forth. Modern computing and communications technologies will enable us not only to execute these (from distributed locations), but also to understand them and to integrate what we learn. I want to be able to try out ideas-and to be free to decide whether or not they are good ideas. Louisiana Maneuvers will be the laboratory in which we learn about the Army of the 21st century. I believe that activities such as this will help us think and grow, so we can lead our organizations and the Army more effectively through the process of change. This concept is about leaders-driving and thinking about our Army in the 21st century in a very positive way. Louisiana Maneuvers will inform our decisions concerning the full range of doctrine, organization, training, material requirements, and leader development. I realize that this approach may blur the distinction between training and combat development-but I believe that we should do it not simply because it will be less costly, but because I see it as a deliberate strategy to adapt the Army more quickly. I want to work toward some type of maj or conference in 1994-structured to bring together specific policy issues I will define so that we can discuss where we are and where we want to go. By 1994 we will have accomplished enough to make a maj or assessment, but I want to begin as soon as possible to bring together exercises such as Reforger 92 and the 1992 CGSOC BCTP exercise as learning and experimental tools to teach us how to use this kind of process and to guide work in progress. Louisiana Maneuvers is a process; at AUSA I said "think of it as a verb and not as a noun." There will be those who will be unable to understand that it is more than a collection of exercises. There will be still others for whom it is but a single exercise. But from our 108 level, I want it to be the process within which we hypothesize, experiment, and assess both policy issues that shape the force as well as DOTML. I envision applying some of our commanders' conference time to assessing just these issues as we go through the months ahead. It will be through the structured exchange of ideas and findings that we shall learn and grow. Leaders of the best organizations talk with each other. I have talked Fred Franks into being my Deputy Exercise Director and pulling this together. I will organize an executive secretariat to do the coordination and each of you will be asked to contribute general officers to a general officer steering group that will represent us in providing policy direction and advice. In essence, we will create an organization somewhat like the leader development decision network to keep this pulled together. DA Staff responsibility will reside with the DCSOPS. In summary, I believe this process will help us focus as an institution; that it will be a vehicle for change; that it will inform our assessment of DOTML; and that it will structure our thinking about the Army in the new military strategy. Our role is not to critique, but to assess and decide-to use Louisiana Maneuvers to move the Army forward. I do not expect to end 1994 with truth with a capital "T," but I do expect to gain sufficient inSight to give us policy options to meet our Title 10 responsibilities and to shape the Army of the 21st century. Let me emphaSize that at this point my ideas are still forming and, frankly, we have yet to define the limits of feasibility for some aspects. I need you to think about this concept very broadly. Fred will lead a discussion of these issues at our meeting at the end of March. My intention at that time will be to get a sufficiently common understanding of our obj ectives and procedures to begin work. I will be grateful for your thoughts in the interim. Regards-Sullivan. The Modern Louisiana Maneuvers
Appendix E RESUME OF SERVICE CAREER GENERAL GORDON RUSSELL SULLIVAN DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH 25 September 1937, Boston, Massachusetts YEARS OF ACTIVE COMMISSIONED SERVICE 36 SOURCE OF COMMISSION ROTC LATEST ASSIGNMENT Chief of Staff, United States Army, Washington, DC, since June 1991 MILITARY SCHOOLS ATTENDED The Armor School, Basic and Advanced Courses United States Army Command and General Staff College United States Army War College EDUCATIONAL DEGREES Norwich University-BA Degree-History University of New Hampshire-MA Degree-Political Science HONORARY DEGREES Norwich University-Doctor of Military Science Quincy College-Associate of Public Service Boston University-Doctor of Laws Lincoln College-Doctor of Political Science
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We live in an era of dynamic change
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The preparation of this history of
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oritized the allocation of LAM seed
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in the GOWGs and BoDs either had so
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gers of being unprepared. He recoun
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Infantry Division (Mechanized) (lst
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eral Combat Training Centers was on
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Figure 1 A Sense of History "Strate
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R. Gabel's recently published book,
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among the players contributed great
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the briefing and established the or
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where and in what quantities, using
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1 Final Report of the Special Study
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mercially available, space-based C4
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services participated, the Joint St
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the Army. For all his efforts and t
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1 GEN Sullivan to BG Mountcastle, 1
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