Army Makes Use of New Manual

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Army Makes Use of New Manual
Stars and Stripes | Lisa Burgess | March 01, 2008

ARLINGTON, Va. - The Army's new operations manual makes the mission of stabilizing war-torn nations just as important as the business of invading them, a change that may not find immediate acceptance within the ranks, one of its authors said.

The manual, which was formally introduced Thursday, is the first significant update to Army operations doctrine since 2001, according to Lt. Col. Steven Leonard, chief of Operational Level Doctrine in the Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

The doctrine is based on lessons learned the hard way by the Army - many of them in Iraq and Afghanistan - Leonard, one of three principal authors of the doctrine, told Stars and Stripes.

Change is difficult for an institution as large as the Army, and as changes go, "this is huge," Leonard said.

Maybe too huge, he worried, for the soldiers most responsible for carrying it out: officers.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,163128,00.html

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1. offloading diplomacy and civil institutions on the army - can you say police state?