Transformation Under Fire - Macgregor, Douglas A.

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Résumé :
Figures Acknowledgments Foreword by General Sir Rupert Smith KCB DSO OBE QGM Foreword by Major General Robert H. Scales Jr., USA (Ret.) I: Introduction The Roadmap to Joint Expeditionary Operations in Land Warfare II: Transforming to What? Why Army Transformation Stalled The Illusion of Change A Third Way to Transform Land Power Six Recommendations III: War and Globalization Whom Do We Fight? Where Do We Fight? How Do We Fight? Conclusion IV: It's about Effects Moving beyond Cold War Metrics of Military Power Linking Ends and Means for Effect Thinking about Effects-Kosovo Achieving Synergy in EBO: North Africa, 1940 Fighting for Effects Today Precision Thinking V: Concepts and Architectures for Joint Expeditionary Warfare An Intellectual Approach to Transformation Operational Architecture for Joint Expeditionary Warfare Forget the Old Rules Making Flatter Command Structures Work Form Should Follow Function in Command and Control Command and Control for Global Joint Expeditionary Warfare VI: Organizing for Global Joint Expeditionary Warfare The Age of the Small, the Fast, and the Many Rethinking the Objective Force with a Transformational Approach XVIII Airborne Corps: Spearhead of Army Transformation The Light Reconnaissance Strike Group The Airborne-Air Assault Group The Aviation Combat Group The Early Deploying Support Group The C4I Group Additional Capability-Based Formations in III Corps VII: Getting Ready for the Fight! Training for Readiness to Deploy and Fight Toward a Joint Rotational Solution VIII: Why the Hell Do We Still Have Troops in Iceland? Where Are the Soldiers? Streamlining Army Command and Control Implementing Army Transformation IX: Leadership and Change in a Cultural Revolution The New Army Leader From Garrison to War Danger: Old Cultures in New Worlds Making a Revolution Developing New Leaders Education for Military Excellence X: Epilogue or Prologue? The Defining Moment of War Toward a New American Way of War Civilians Must Lead Appendix: Technology for Land Forces in Joint Expeditionary Warfare Adapting the Acquisition Process to Soldier Need Understanding the Army in War The Fight for Information The Battle of Seconds The Battle of Minutes The Battle of Hours and Days Glossary of Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Military Terms Index...

Biographie:
DOUGLAS A. MACGREGOR is a Colonel with the Center for Technology and National Security at the National Defense University. A West Point graduate, he served in Desert Storm, earning a bronze star with V device for valor for his leadership of combat troops. He is the author of Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21st Century (Praeger, 1997) and The Soviet-East German Military Alliance (1989). He holds an M.A. in comparative politics and a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Viginia....

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Figures Acknowledgments Foreword by General Sir Rupert Smith KCB DSO OBE QGM Foreword by Major General Robert H. Scales Jr., USA (Ret.) I: Introduction The Roadmap to Joint Expeditionary Operations in Land Warfare II: Transforming to What? Why Army Transformation Stalled The Illusion of Change A Third Way to Transform Land Power Six Recommendations III: War and Globalization Whom Do We Fight? Where Do We Fight? How Do We Fight? Conclusion IV: It's about Effects Moving beyond Cold War Metrics of Military Power Linking Ends and Means for Effect Thinking about Effects-Kosovo Achieving Synergy in EBO: North Africa, 1940 Fighting for Effects Today Precision Thinking V: Concepts and Architectures for Joint Expeditionary Warfare An Intellectual Approach to Transformation Operational Architecture for Joint Expeditionary Warfare Forget the Old Rules Making Flatter Command Structures Work Form Should Follow Function in Command and Control Command and Control for Global Joint Expeditionary Warfare VI: Organizing for Global Joint Expeditionary Warfare The Age of the Small, the Fast, and the Many Rethinking the Objective Force with a Transformational Approach XVIII Airborne Corps: Spearhead of Army Transformation The Light Reconnaissance Strike Group The Airborne-Air Assault Group The Aviation Combat Group The Early Deploying Support Group The C4I Group Additional Capability-Based Formations in III Corps VII: Getting Ready for the Fight! Training for Readiness to Deploy and Fight Toward a Joint Rotational Solution VIII: Why the Hell Do We Still Have Troops in Iceland? Where Are the Soldiers? Streamlining Army Command and Control Implementing Army Transformation IX: Leadership and Change in a Cultural Revolution The New Army Leader From Garrison to War Danger: Old Cultures in New Worlds Making a Revolution Developing New Leaders Education for Military Excellence X: Epilogue or Prologue? The Defining Moment of War Toward a New American Way of War Civilians Must Lead Appendix: Technology for Land Forces in Joint Expeditionary Warfare Adapting the Acquisition Process to Soldier Need Understanding the Army in War The Fight for Information The Battle of Seconds The Battle of Minutes The Battle of Hours and Days Glossary of Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Military Terms Index...