Increasing Strategic Responsivenes Rotating U.S. Army Corps Through Phases of the National Military Strategy

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Abstract : The purpose of this monograph is to answer the question: Can the Army increase its strategic responsiveness in order to narrow the current gap between Army capabilities and requirements? To arrive at an answer, this paper begins by examining complexity theory to provide the cognitive tools necessary to understand how systems interact with their environments. Chapter three examines the changes in the national security and military strategies in response to the national and domestic factors over the last decade. It also assesses the impact these changes produced, an imbalance between Army requirements and capabilities. Utilizing Martin Van Creveld's rules for enhancing command performance, chapter four explores alternative proposals that aim to close the gap between requirements and capabilities by increasing strategic responsiveness. While investigating the problem and potential solutions, it became clear that versatility is the key to reducing this gap. Versatility, the capa

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