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...essential successful prosecution of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), and the Field Artillery plays vital roles in these operations. America's enemies continue to adapt to find ways to harm our country, our citizens, our allies and our Soldiers. They have adopted insurgent tactics to terrorize innocent civilians and attack free societies while avoiding direct confrontation with our conventional military power.
The Army, with its Field Artillery, is maintaining its military power in full-spectrum operations while adapting to defeat insurgents and must continue to do so.
Fostering a Culture of Adaptation. To defeat our enemies, we must embrace adaptation as a steady state rather than as an end state.
An adaptive organizational culture is necessarily decentralized. Commanders encourage adaptation by issuing an overall intent and mission orders to junior leaders and encouraging those leaders to accomplish the mission with available resources.
Moreover, an organizational culture of adaptation must apply to all that an organization does, both deployed and at home station, both in the field and garrison. A unit that operates in a decentralized manner in training builds the expertise, confidence and initiative of junior leaders and Soldiers, preparing them to succeed in COIN operations.
For example, the article in this edition by Lieutenant Colonel Pat Antonietti describes his fires battalion's training for and execution of decentralized platoon-based operations in Iraq. Until recently, Lieutenant Colonel Antonietti commanded the 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery (1-41 FA), 3rd Infantry Division. During 1-41 FA's 12-month tour, his "Hot" platoons were dispersed throughout an area of operations (AO) the size of Maryland and fired almost 6,000 rounds in support of its 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT). For more details, see the article in this edition "1-41 FA, A Fires Battalion in OIF III: Supporting Decentralized 'Hot' Platoons and Other Missions."
Likewise our institutional, combat training center (CTC) and home-station training must foster a culture of adaptation in our leaders, Soldiers and units. We will never develop the "school solution" for COIN. Tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that worked last year may not work next year, and TTPs that worked in one place may not work in another.
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