Futures Seminar: The United States Army in 2025 and Beyond - Compendium of U.S. Army War College Papers, Volume 1 - Seventeen Topics Including Restructuring, WMD, Landpower, Personnel, Culture, Health

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. These papers represent seventeen different recommendations by 17 different Army War College students. In their words they look to add one small bit of perspective to one small piece of the very large question, “What kind of Army will we need in 2025 and beyond?” Are these recommendations good ones? YES! They are as good as any other recommendation – and FAR BETTER than no recommendation at all. At the very least they have added to the professional discourse on serious Army matters. Predicting the needs of the Army 10-25 years into the future is risky, tough business. As Colonel Richard H. Witherspoon wrote in his Foreword to the original 1997 Army After Next Project Compendium, “This is a difficult task with no ‘Right’ or ‘Wrong’ markers.” These students have hit the mark.

The Futures Seminar took a slightly different approach to student involvement in examining the Army of the future. Rather than publishing a collection of student SRPs (the capstone research paper which every Army War College student completes), the Futures Seminar was structured as a standard 10-class elective course. The seminar challenged students to examine a topic relevant to the development and implementation of Army initiatives in 2025 and beyond. Through lecture, speakers, discussion and research, students developed an understanding of challenges facing the Army in 2025+ and formulated recommendations and strategies to address one singular question: “What kind of Army will we need in 2025 and beyond?”

Foreword - Colonel Samuel R. White, Jr. * Section 1: Addressing Army Structure * Preserve the Regular Army and National Guard; Eliminate the Army Reserve - Lieutenant Colonel Edward W. Allen * Keep the Reserves Operational - Colonel Gregory W. Smith * Options for Tomorrow's Army - Colonel Michael J. Lawrence * Restructuring the United States Army's Force Structure - Colonel Christopher S. Moretti, Sr. * What Type of Army does the Nation need in 2025 and Beyond? "Army CBRN Forces" - Colonel Antonio V. Munera * Divest of the Standing BCT to Create the Future Force - Colonel Kelly W. Ivanoff * Section 2: Addressing Army Capabilities * Army 2025 as "Landpower+": The Survivable All-Domain Joint Capability - Dr. Peter G. Laky * A Strategy for the Next Infantry Fighting Vehicle - Colonel James W. Schirmer * Operations in Megacities: he Future Modular Force 2030 and Beyond - Colonel Eric M. McFadden * Integration of Unmanned Platforms in the Army of 2025 - Colonel David W. Hardy * Maintaining Strategic Advantage in Cyberspace: U.S. Army Component Roles - Mr. D. Edward Durham * Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Transformation Strategy - Colonel Chadwick T. Bauld * Section 3: Addressing Army Personnel Development and Sustainment * Shaping the Debate on Compensation Reform to Man the Army for the Future - Lieutenant Colonel Thomas C. Hawn * How Should the Army Develop Strategic Leaders for 2025? - Colonel Daniel M. Shrimpton * Secondary Education Reform and National Security - Colonel Robert G. Picht, Jr. * The Recommendation for Establishment of Cultural Units within the Army - Lieutenant Colonel Peter J. Whalen * Health Information Enterprise 2030 - Colonel Gary A. Wheeler