Military Review English Edition July-August 2015 | Page 22

assembly-line approach to education that focused on
conforming to established procedures based around
branch-specific expertise.
Army education has evolved in its approach as it
has incorporated new learning techniques appropriate
for the challenges of emerging operational complexity.
However, it still remains unduly constrained by a structural approach to its curriculum development process
and a teaching methodology that is too rigid. It does
not effectively cultivate or promote the kind of creative
thinking and mental agility necessary to overcome the
challenges of the future operational environment.
Incoherent focus. The education effort within
TRADOC today includes at least seventy schools
and a large number