These studies of training and leader development, and doctrinal and combat developments subjects provide historical perspective to support the Command's mission of preparing the Army for war and charting its future. This is a study of the development of the U.S. Army's post-Cold War doctrine and provides a documented record of a doctrine thinking and planning process. Headings include: Army doctrine and the strategic shift; rethinking war fighting; a new dynamics of battle; crystallizing a post-Cold War doctrine; doctrine for a new time; and an assessment.

The year 1993 marks the 20th anniversary of the Army's establishment -- on 1 July 1973--0f the Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC, as the major innovation in its post-Vietnam War reorganization. Skeptics were free with predictions that the new organization would not survive the test of time, but at the 20-year point, it is appropriate to note that TRADOC has existed longer than any of its predecessors. The other major component of the 1973 reorganization of the Army in the United States; Forces Command; or FORSCOM, also observes its 20th anniversary on the same date. The formal observance of TRADOC's 20th anniversary provides not only the opportunity, but the obligation for the TRADOC Office of the Command Historian to produce a historical assessment that surveys the reasons for the 1973 reorganization and the role TRADOC played in carrying out its assigned mission responsibilities as the instrument for change and development in the Army.

Originally published by the U. S. Army in 1993 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Army's establishment of the Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC, as the major innovation in its post-Vietnam War organization. The Office of the Command Historian has produced a historical assessment that surveys the reasons for the 1973 reorganization and the role TRADOC played in carrying out its assigned mission responsibilities as the instrument for change and development in the Army.