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Victory Starts Here - A Short 40-Year History of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (Paperback)
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Victory Starts Here - A Short 40-Year History of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (Paperback)
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Loot Price R523
Discovery Miles 5 230
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This new edition of Victory Starts Here is a short history of the
US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) as it is completing
four decades of organizational existence. Established in July 1973
to solve the cumbersome command and control issues of the old US
Continental Army Command (CONARC), TRADOC's mission was to oversee
Army schools, training, doctrine, and combat developments. Through
time those missions have evolved, and TRADOC also has become
responsible for preparing the Army for war and functioning as the
Army's architect of the future. General William E. DePuy, TRADOC's
first commander, understood that the Army required sound training,
coherent organization, modem weapon systems, and relevant doctrine.
His successors built on that foundation and addressed the need for
future planning. Readers will learn that TRADOC's story is
generally one of success. Still, as this monograph is published in
spring 2013, the full effects of about a dozen years of conflict in
Southwest Asia as part of the Global War on Terrorism, the 2005
Base Realignment and Closure effort that largely concluded in 2011,
and now the fiscal uncertainty caused by the budgetary process
known colloquially as sequestration altogether are presenting
TRADOC with a set of postwar'' challenges that bear useful
comparison to those the nation and the Army faced when the command
was established in the wake of Vietnam. Where these trials will
take TRADOC in the years to come cannot, of course, be determined
with certainty right now. Assuming that the past is a reliable
guide to the future (which is one of the compelling justifications
for the study of history in the first place), then the Army is
likely to continue to need an organization to train and educate
Soldiers, to formulate and promulgate doctrine, to devise and
determine weapons and organizations, and to puzzle out tomorrow's
Army. TRADOC's future survival, therefore, seems to be imperative
to a successful US Army. This latest version of Victory Starts Here
provides an overview of 40 years of TRADOC's service to the Army
and the nation.
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