The Modern Louisiana Maneuvers - US Army Center Of Military History

Appendix H
MEMORANDUM FOR BG TOMMY R. FRANKS , DIRECTOR,
LOUISIANA MANEUVERS TASK FORCE
SUBJECT: Letter of Instruction for Louisiana
Maneuvers (LAM)
1. PURPOSE: This Letter of Instructions
establishes the CSA Louisiana Maneuvers
Task Force (LAM TF) and assigns you as the
Director of the Task Force with responsibility
to develop and execute Louisiana Maneuvers.
It provides my concept, objectives, and
expectations for the Louisiana Maneuvers
including the command and control architecture.
It provides your authority to act,
under my direction as represented by the
Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and
Plans and under the direction of Commander,
TRADOC acting as the Deputy Director
of Louisiana Maneuvers.
2. CONCEPT:
a. Louisiana Maneuvers is the Army's program
to bring together and focus the forces
of change and cohesion as we transition from
being a Cold War Army oriented on the Soviet
threat to a CONUS-based power projection
Army of the 21st Century-a Total
Force, trained and ready to fight, serving the
nation at home and abroad, a strategic force
capable of decisive victory. At the essence of
our Army is its warfighting capability. LAM
is a vehicle to assess progress as well as focus
and facilitate change in a warfighting
context through exercises, simulations, and
intellectual interface.
b. I expect to use LAM as a process which
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will help us identify policy issues across the
full range of Departmental responsibilities
and the operational continuum, and encompassing
the full planning range from force
generation through war termination, redeployment,
and demobilization. LAM includes
Senior Commander Seminars, existing
Departmental and joint exercises, and
existing and emerging simulations to assess
progress on known and emerging issues and,
where appropriate, it will help us identify
alternatives and provide a structured policymaking
format.
c. LAM will focus initially on Army and
JCS exercises and simulation activities being
conducted routinely as we strive to keep
the Army trained and ready. This is an
"economy of force" operation as my intent
is to "piggyback" on on-going exercises and
simulations. Other events should be developed,
however, which capitalize on our ability
to simulate weapons systems and equipment
and to assess alternatives or evaluate
policy options to expand our horizons. These
may be conducted as unique events, as
"games within games," or as "skunk works"
activities. This will involve close links between
"training" and "combat developments."
The role of LAM and the LAM TF
Director will be to integrate these developments,
lessons learned, and exercise or simulation
results in a rational, structured way
and to bring those outcomes to the senior