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Aunt Bann [Visitor] in response to: on english as a discipline and the "crisis model of time management"

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:43:16 +0000

WOW! You have gotten me thinking. I wish I could have had a teacher like you, — and could have BEEN a teacher like you! Keep doing what you are doing – one day in the future, those students will be hunting you up to say THANKS!!!

admin [Member] in response to: on english as a discipline and the "crisis model of time management"

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 01:03:41 +0000

This is true, Dave. It’s a crucial skill to develop somewhere along the way. I’d even argue that living in a 24-hour window is NOT time management at all, but simple survival.

Generals tend to develop strategic thinking and plans in the course of their careers and most certainly not in a vacuum. By this, I mean they develop strategic plans with a commander’s action group. Battle plans evolve through massive planning and delegation and teamwork, as well, and the series of well-established professional military education schools offer lessons and copious practice on developing battle plans.

You ask a good question. I don’t know if, pre-commissioning, there is any real “strategic thinking” education, but there should be.

Hinermad [Visitor] in response to: on english as a discipline and the "crisis model of time management"

Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:10:43 +0000

Diana,

What kind of training do cadets receive on strategic thinking? I’m sure they’re being taught how to follow orders and how to give orders. But eventually some of them will be generals, and will be running campaigns where they won’t be getting direct orders. They’ll be looking at the total situation (and in today’s warfare that includes the political situation at home and in-theater) and making strategic plans before they start issuing orders. Where do they learn how to do that? Because that’s not something you can do in 24 hours like a paper for class where you’re echoing something you learned before. It takes advanced prep, research, fact-finding (which requires its own prep) and constant refinement as new data come in.

From up here in the cheap seats, it looks to me like learning to start preparing early for upcoming challenges would be a good skill for an officer to have.

Dave