What Is At Stake? The Future.
“Future leaders will have a higher level of doctrine-based skills, knowledge, attitudes, and experience …In fact, the complex nature of future operations may require leaders of greater experience and rank commanding at lower levels than ever before.”
TRADOC Pamphlet 525-5: Force XXI Operations
“The extraordinarily high quality of the Army’s human dimension …must rise to an even higher level in the increasingly complex operating environment of the 21st century…particularly…at the level of the combat battalion.”
TRADOC Pamphlet 525-3-19: Objective Force Maneuver Unit of Action Concept