“We have to change some things about our Army, and we don’t have time to waste. We can’t plan to transform once in a generation.… We must transform continuously and iteratively, and we must get better every day.” Gen. Randy A. George 41st Chief of Staff, United States Army
Execute Today [Content You Can Use Immediately]
Creating a career timeline can help you seize opportunities and optimize moves for career growth. A former career manager explains how to impact your career trajectory with this tool that provides flexibility, predictability, and transparency. Learn more and find an example here.
**Just published!** The Training Management Directorate has just published a training fact sheet on battle tasks and a circular to augment FM & ADP 7-0.
Prepare For Tomorrow [Content to Improve Your Organization]
“Leadership isn’t about what leaders know, it’s about what they do.” Yet good leaders always look to increase their knowledge through learning experiences, like those offered at the Sergeant's Major Academy. Learn perspectives on great leadership in this collaborative article from the Department of Command Leadership team.
The best year of your life? Perhaps, but it definitely prepares students to deepen their understanding of war & shapes their ability to influence it. Learn more in Making the Most of Resident Intermediate Level Education.
Growing and shaping warfighter capabilities takes collaborative effort from experts. Events like the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Summit provide the chance to innovate, learn, and synergize across the Army and industry for lethality in LSCO. Read more here.
“Successful armies are learning organizations that quickly adapt imaginative solutions.” This article explores what hinders accelerated knowledge transfer in the Army and offers a phased implementation strategy to address it.
“The core truth of transforming in contact is that the future is already here.” The 4th Infantry Division’s “Ivy Mass” exercise provides observations and lessons used to propose clearly defined roles for each tactical echelon as they train for MDO. Read about it here.
Learn Always:[Content to Help You Think]
The global security environment is constantly changing. How does this impact what competencies our Army leaders need? The US Army War College War Room examines questions like this in a series of 8 articles that can be found here.
“The purpose of evolution is to increase our survivability.” Across the Army University, schools and centers of excellence are transforming professional military education (PME) to ensure the force has what it needs to maintain strategic overmatch in a rapidly changing operational environment. Listen here as the Department Head of Strategy and Doctrine at the U.S. Warrant Officer Career College shares her perspective and vision for preparing the USAWOCC cohort for the future fight.
“Are we building the right force, with the right people to prevail over adversaries who have thought long and hard about how to defeat us?” Listen here as the Director of Maneuver Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate poses this and other questions as he describes efforts at the Maneuver Center of Excellence to accomplish this challenge.
Recent events in Ukraine and the Middle East highlight the need for an approach more similar to Sun Tzu than Clausewitz. This article lays out the importance of a layered irregular warfare strategy with five principles that should be applied to manage the gray zone’s current challenges.
Advanced technology or traditional military tactics? This author argues a balanced approach by using technology, like unmanned systems, as tools to prevent loss of life without overlooking the need for traditional military tactics and mastering warfighter fundamentals. Read more here.
Get Involved: [Opportunities for YOU to Drive Change]
The 2025 General William E. DePuy Special Topics Writing Competition is open for submissions until 31 May. This year’s theme: “The challenges of planning for security in a world that is increasingly borderless, multicultural, and economically interdependent.” Learn more here.
Strengthen the Army Profession. Share your experiences, ideas, and perspectives through writing. The Line of Departure website hosts 17 different branch journals plus criteria, writing prompts, and writing tips.
Readers Speak: [Feedback for You, By You]
Drum roll, please! The third annual March Masters* competition will run March 16th to April 6th
The competition is your chance to support and amplify those who strengthen the Army profession as content creators.** There are 3 ways to participate; bracket submission, voting, and/or as a competitor.
*March Masters, like the NCAA’s March Madness, is a single-elimination competition. However, instead of players duking it out on the basketball court, leader development content creators go head-to-head in social media polls to determine the best creators.
**A content creator is any person or entity that creates leader development material through any medium or channel that contributes to the betterment of the Army profession.
How to play:
- Nominate your favorite content creator no later than 3/10 via email or social media message.
- Submit your bracket! Brackets will be announced on all ALx social media accounts on March 17th. Take a photo of your completed bracket and submit NLT 3/19 @ 1800. Simply email or post your bracket to your social media of choice and tag the Army Leader Exchange (@armyldrexchange) and include the hashtag: #MarchMasters
- Vote! Follow Alx on X or Linked In to vote starting 3/20. Bracket Boss, Content Creator Champion, and MVP will be officially announced on 4/7.
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