Great question James! No, the Army is drawing a clear delineation between concepts and doctrine. The operating concept is used for experimentation and driving development of the force (across all domains of DOTMLPF: doctrine, organization, training, etc). At some point in time in the future, TRADOC will create an operating doctrine that actually describes the “how” for how we’ll employ the concept. So, the concept will have a role in the doctrinal development but is not itself doctrine.
TRADOC made that distinction before. I forget the nomenclature of the concepts. 400 - something.
So, this is concepts only.
My team wrote the Gladiator concept in 2000. It was adopted and then belonged to TRADOC as the Quality of Firsts. I know McMaster and others hated it. Wish I could have briefed it to him. The methodology to derive it could have spoken to him. He was a cadet when I was teaching at West Point.
Well, I won’t tell you just how young I am, but it looks like one of your classmates was the commandant when I was a cadet.
What little I remember of the Quality of Firsts concepts, it has influenced the work of the concept developers and futures community today. The “convergence” idea seems closely related…
Is this the new Army 3.0? Like the old FM 100-5?
Great question James! No, the Army is drawing a clear delineation between concepts and doctrine. The operating concept is used for experimentation and driving development of the force (across all domains of DOTMLPF: doctrine, organization, training, etc). At some point in time in the future, TRADOC will create an operating doctrine that actually describes the “how” for how we’ll employ the concept. So, the concept will have a role in the doctrinal development but is not itself doctrine.
TRADOC made that distinction before. I forget the nomenclature of the concepts. 400 - something.
So, this is concepts only.
My team wrote the Gladiator concept in 2000. It was adopted and then belonged to TRADOC as the Quality of Firsts. I know McMaster and others hated it. Wish I could have briefed it to him. The methodology to derive it could have spoken to him. He was a cadet when I was teaching at West Point.
Well, I won’t tell you just how young I am, but it looks like one of your classmates was the commandant when I was a cadet.
What little I remember of the Quality of Firsts concepts, it has influenced the work of the concept developers and futures community today. The “convergence” idea seems closely related…