Transforming Strategic Leader Education for the 21st-Century Army

Abstract

The article reports that military operations are divided into three levels of warfare tactical, operational, and strategic. The figure in the article depicts these levels, the focus of each, and the associated schooling that an American Army officer undergoes in preparation to perform his or her professional tasks. This approach is based on a cold war paradigm in which the officer normally underwent a rigorous pre-commissioning undergraduate education at the military academy or a civilian university, followed by roughly 20 years of training in his basic branch prior to the final period of intensive education at a senior service college.