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L. Romjue, American Army Doctrine for the Post-Cold
Wa r (Fort Monroe, VA TRADOC Military History
Office, 1996), p. 77 n.43, commenting on CBRS's
built -in, process-fixed slowness despite twenty years
of reform efforts.
15 See, for example, an advocate's position in
Frederic J. Brown, The U.S. Army in Transition II:
Landpower in the Information Age (Washington, New
York, London: Brassey's (US), Inc., 1993), particularly
pp. 87-98.
16 Interview, Peay with Dr. Richard Hunt and Dr.
Mark Sherry, 18July 1994, pp. 11-16. See also Peay's
letter to BG John W Mountcastle, 16 October, 1997,
p. 5: "I had been with the 9th ID High Tech Test Bed
and ADEA process from the beginning. I saw first
hand how and why it failed. I did not want our Chief
to not have the right organization for LAM or it would
not survive." Interview, MG Ronald E. Adams with
Yarrison, 13 February 1998, p. 8.
1 7 Sullivan's letter to Mountcastle, 17 October
1997, inside draft cover page (historian's files).
18 Sullivan, Collected Wo rks, Speech to the Union
League of Philadelphia, 10 October 1991, pp. 11-12;
Speech to the Eisenhower Luncheon of the AUSA, 15
October 1991, pp. 17-18; Speech to Army Session Luncheon
of the ROA Mid-Winter Conference, 21 January
1992, pp. 30-31. See also Charles E. Heller and
William A. Stofft, eds., America's First Battles, 1776-1965
(Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1986, particularly,
John Shy, "First Battles in Retrospect," pp. 327-
352, 403.
19 See, for example, Speech to the Union League
of Philadelphia, 10 October 1991, and Eisenhower Luncheon
of the Annual Meeting of the Association of the
United States Army (AUSA) , 15 October 1991, both
in Sullivan, Collected Wo rks, pp. 11 and 17, respectively
See also T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of Wa r (Washington,
D.C.: Brassey's, 1994), pp. 95-107.
20 Memorandum for COL LeCuyer from COL
Harper, 10 July 1991, sub.: Doctrine Debate, in
Sullivan Papers, Michael V Harper Papers, Memorandums,
June-December 1991, Box 21, Folder 2, July
1991, file 3. The Michael V Harper subseries is hereafter
cited as Harper Papers. See also Frederic J.
Brown, The U.S. Army in Transition II: Landpower
in the Information Age (Washington, New Yo rk, and
London: Brassey's (US) , 1993), pp. 87-98, on the development
and functioning of the CBRS.
2 1 Memorandum for COL LeCuyer from COL
Harper, 10 July 1991, sub.: Doctrine Debate, in
Sullivan Papers, Harper Papers, Memorandums, June­
December 1991, Box 21, Folder 2, July 1991, file 3.
See also Interview, COL (Ret.) Jack A. LeCuyer with
Yarrison, 23 October 1996, pp. 5-6.
22 Sullivan Calendars, August 1991, in the
historian's files. Sullivan pinned on Franks' new rank
at the Summer Senior Commanders Conference on 6
August. The change of command ceremony took place
on 23 August.
The Genesis of the Louisiana Maneuvers
23 Interview, GEN (Ret.) Frederick M. Franks with
Yarrison, 18 February 1997, pp. 17-18. Franks had
his DCS for Concepts, Doctrine, and Developments,
MG Wesley K. Clark, describe the battle dynamics at
the March 1992 Conference of Desert Storm commanders.
See Office of the Chief of Public Affairs,
Headquarters TRADOC, Desert Storm One Year Later
Conference Report, 2-3 March 1992. pp. 13-14. The
battle dynamics are interspersed through the 1993
edition of FM 100-5, Operations. See also Tom
Clancy with Franks, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
(New Yo rk: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997), pp.
488-5 11.
24 Interview, Franks with John Romjue, 17 November
1994, pp. 11-12; Interview, Franks with Yarrison,
18 February 1997, pp. 5-6. See also Franks, "Battle
Command: A Commander's Perspective," Military Review,
May-June 1996, 7.
25 Interview, Sullivan with Yarrison, 29 April 1997,
pp. 2-4. See also Interview, Nelson with Yarrison, 18
September 1996, pp. 12-15; Interview, LTG (Ret.)
Charles E. Dominy with Yarrison, 16 September 1996,
pp. 2-4.
26 See, for example, Message, Cdr, TRADOC, to
CSA, 161316Z Dec 91, sub: Louisiana Maneuvers­
A Fifty Year Stride. Paragraph 1 shows the linkage
the doctrine and the change process held for Franks:
"Greatly enjoyed our discussion of the evolution of
doctrine embodied in the FM 100-5 revision and the
concomitant requirement to lead the Army through
the change process." Paragraph 8 is also important:
"While there is much to be done, the major thrust is
clear. Our work with doctrine and FM 100-5 is convergent
with our distributed simulation work. The two
reinforce each other in a robust, though complex program.
We will have taken a fifty-year stride in our
large unit exercise capability and used it to cement
our grasp on the updated realities of the battlefield
dynamic." Franks naturally discussed the emerging
doctrine at length with many other senior Army leaders,
including LTG Peay, the DCSOPS. This message
is located in the Records of the Chief of Staff, Army's
Louisiana Maneuvers Task Force, 870-5a, Records of
the Army Staff (To be depOSited in NARA Records
Group 319) (hereafter cited as LAM TF Files) , Box
1, File 3-2b.
27 Interview, Franks with H. O. Malone, 7 January
1993, pp. 3-4; Interview, Franks with Malone, 12
January 1993, p. 1.
28 Harper had served with Sullivan in DCSOPS as
the Chief of War Plans. During the Gulf War, Harper
also served as head of the Chief of Staff's Strategic Planning
Group, which sought to provide courses of action
for future operations. His relationship with Sullivan thus
continued over the course of both of Sullivan's first two
aSSignments in the Pentagon, and Sullivan named him
to his transition team and then to be Chief of his Staff
Group when he became Chief of Staff. See Interview,
Harper with Yarrison, 2 October 1996, pp. 3-4.
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