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cept that included a third, TDNInstitutional
Army axis. The Chief of Staff approved the
concept and disseminated it to the field as
Force XXI Campaign Plan Guidance 57
The LAM Task Force had assidously prepared
the way for Army-wide acceptance of
the Force XXI Campaign during the preceding
months. In conjunction with newly assigned
COL Richard A. Cowell, COLs Smith
and Rodgers had crafted a series of briefings
on the upcoming Force XXI Campaign. Traveling
throughout the Army, Cowell and
Smith presented the material to the several
members of the Board of Directors. Each
briefing, stressing that the success of the
Force XXI effort depended on the recipients'
support and contributions, served to elicit
useful comment and to persuade the individuals
to take ownership of the Force XXI
concept and their part in it.58 At the Army
War College, 13-14 July 1994, the new LAM
Task Force Director, BG David Ohle, presented
the Force XXI Campaign Plan to the
next meeting of the Board of Directors, which
accepted it for implementation.
Conclusion
By mid-July 1994, a month after Ohle
succeeded Tommy Franks as Director of the
Task Force, an important phase in the life
of the modern Louisiana Maneuvers had
ended and a vastly new one had begun. The
Louisiana Maneuvers process had grown
and matured and had served both to foster
a receptiveness to change among the Army's
leaders and to engage the Army's senior
leaders in deciding what was important for
the institution's corporate future. The LAM
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BG David Ohle
process and the LAM Task Force-acting for
the Chief of Staff and often in conjunction
with TRADOC's Battle Labs and other agencies-had
facilitated and nurtured many of
the high-technology approaches and programs
that would lead the Army toward
Force XXI. But the future would also produce
many changes for the Louisiana Maneuvers
and for the Task Force. Sullivan's
decisions at the 12-14 July Board of Directors
meeting, while approving implementation
of the Force XXI Campaign, also included
several other elements that led to
the end of the formal Louisiana Maneuvers
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