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(Photo by Spc. Joshua Leonard, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team PAO)

Soldiers from 173rd Airborne Brigade, U.S. Army Europe, demonstrate room clearing procedures for Ukrainian marines and national
guard soldiers 14 September 2014 during situational training at Exercise Rapid Trident 2014, near Yavoriv, Ukraine.

The Army University

Educating Leaders to Win in a
Complex World
Lt. Gen. Robert B. Brown, U.S. Army
We must continue to educate and develop soldiers and civilians to grow the intellectual capacity to understand the complex contemporary security environment to better lead Army, joint, interagency, and multinational task forces and teams.
Therefore, we will reinvest and transform our institutional educational programs for officers and noncommissioned officers
in order to prepare for the complex future security environment.
-Secretary of the Army John McHugh

B

eginning this year, the United States Army
Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)
is reorganizing the Army’s professional military
education programs into a university system to increase
academic rigor, to create greater opportunities for
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accreditation, and to enhance the quality of the force.
The Army University aligns the commissioned officer,
warrant officer, noncommissioned officer, and civilian
education programs across TRADOC under a single
academic structure with a consistent brand name. This
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