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18 Army Hist. 1 (1991)

handle is hein.milandgov/aryhsy0018 and id is 1 raw text is: ARMY HIST ORY THE PROFESSIONAL BULLETIN OF ARMY HISTORY PB-20-91-2 (No. 18) Washington, D.C. Spring 1991 Not by Accident Gerald P. Stadler Ma Gen Stadler is cLomandam of wle Natinal Wr Courege in Washington. His article, A Shortage of Slratega w.' appeared In the Fall 1990 Army {Iist ry, in this sequel. General Xadler uses a ficrwmalled approadh to discuss ite ir y real rule of mniluary his tr i shaping ftare Ar my stracegrsrs. A modeM short story9 Yes, I suppose you could cal this a very hoNt one about a great and prominent st regi. i e grows to heroic stature in the year 2014 vi o the Presidet On the centennial of the stail of tie Hrst World War, he is the military straie- gist who plays a key role in the design of the strategy that allows the nation eucessfully to avert general war When offered an artcle describig a shortage of grategas Lo Army History some months ago, it was accepted with the proviso that a second article follow which filled in the missing parts: how the shortage developed and how to tix it So how wi1 the premier f, .g y Frategst of t 14. an up and cmng major in Ah Ary of I991,pro r oaddevelopovertheinte- vening t wo and -a-half decades to be poised to make that epic contribution to the nation Il 2014? Not by accident I would argre Oprational Duiis A ctrtical pan of the vcl opmnlt t our military rategisti. justn Tyme, had hlttle to do with the study of strategy, military history, or sta ff colleges and war colleges. Yet, It was the par ol his experence that disinguishes the uniformed m iltary strategist from hi, civilian counterpart, Op crtional dudes tempered and balanced the lifelong study of strategy by this professional Anny officer- this would be strategist. Those duties brought under tad! g by xpetieCit g disciphne, mdled inrtell. ,ence, pIn at1, and rsponsibiliy, among other things- x pcriences that academic e lf ons could onl y approximate. Studentsoi thestrategist Cad von Ciause. witz for example. frequently have lnk ed his success 1li articulauon o1 s gy t his own operationa expenences of in rang se o biit y. Earlier Study. Jus tn Tyme was lortunate to have had important operational assignments regularly dur ing his service Not by chance; he sought those obs. but he was also fortunate to have staed off on the right foot ii the precommisslornn phs of his euca tion. His hard-charging ROTC (Reserve Officer Tram) ing Corps) Instructor had challenged all cadets to read miitary history beyond the requirements of the cur riculum Star wi any , h d iogr phics, autobiographies, uii histories. analyses, wha ever, in the process, many of thena came to enjoy reading mlitary history. Only a tew of them might ultimately grow to be genuine mtlitary strategs. fl advied bue they w ould have to start thir stdy enyh 1e reminded his cadets that an an ectriier eta, LI Omar Bradley met weekly with like miiidcd ItIen ants to discuss the military history they had rrad their ROTC instructor. a West Point graduate, even amaued them by predicting the y'd be beter prepared in h'tory than their Academy counterparts whose attenton 1 the subject was steadily reduced by other demands and time constraints. Advanced Military Studies The eye-opener for Justin was the year he spent in the Advanced Program of the School for Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) after being a student at the staff college. That year's training was the key element in the educaional proc- ess by which strategists were devedoped in the I90 Almost a decade old, lifi course hlenged hrs imakil nation and had carned a reCpetable reputation actoss the Army by the excellence of wts graduates It pro vided him. for the first time. an intersection of the sveral deveLopmen iihl ava i le to s lr. ;sa A wide vanety of jos and a steady dit f ir vio us l

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