The Modern Louisiana Maneuvers - US Army Center Of Military History

Figure 7
Office of the
Director
Synchronization
Directorale
Synchronization
Division
ADO Axis
Division
TDA Axis
Divsion
a transformation from a structure crafted to
manage the Louisiana Maneuvers process to
one that, primarily, would synchronize the
Force XXI Campaign. Initial plans called for
the bulk of the Task Force to move to Washington
with only a small remnant continuing
at Fort Monroe.4 The final organization
was more evenly dispersed geographically,
with directorates or groups of directorates
in the Washington area, Fort Monroe, Fort
Leavenworth, and Carlisle Barracks. (See
Figure 7 for the structure of the reorganized
Task Force.)
BG Ohle, a part of the Task Force headquarters,
and portions of the Initiatives and
Synchronization (formerly Issues) Directorates,
ultimately resided in the Pentagon,
where they absorbed the former Pentagon
Liaison Office. The Initiatives Directorate
received responsibility for supervising what
remained of the original LAM process and
also assisted in the overall Force XXI marketing
effort. The Synchronization Directorate
was responsible for coordinating the
Force XXI Campaign . It organized the Synchronization
Working Groups (SWGs),
which ultimately became arenas for discus-
Reorienting LAM: The Force XXI Campaign
Support &
...- -- -+- -- -- -i Communications
Directorate
Leavenworth
Directorate
Monroe
Directorate
Joint Venture
Axis Division
Carlisle
Directorate
sion and coordination, at the colonel level,
of actions and issues associated with melding
together the different parts of the Force
XXI Campaign . The directorate contained a
Synchronization Division, which was responsible
for overall Force XXI synchronization,
an ADO Axis Division, and a TDA
Axis Division, the latter two responsible for
coordination within their axes.
The Deputy Director, the Support and
Communications Directorate, remnants of the
Issues and Initiatives Directorates, and most
of the former Operations Directorate-now
known as the Monroe Directorate-remained
at Fort Monroe. The Support and Communications
Directorate continued its functions
without much change. The rest of the Monroe
Directorate contained a Joint Venture Division,
which monitored Joint Venture activities,
and an Information Synthesis Division,
which investigated new technologies and synthesized
the insights gleaned.
In accordance with Sullivan's desires, the
Task Force also maintained presences at other
key sites. The Exercise Directorate at Fort
Leavenworth became the Leavenworth Directorate,
with many of the same functions. It
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