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DEVELOPING LEADERS continue rebalancing the three components of leader development: training, education, and experience. The valuable experience the Army gained in Iraq and Afghanistan must be complemented by the education and training necessary to develop the leaders the Army needs for its complex future—including the ability to lead Army and joint enterprises. The Army has done this well in the past and will develop leaders in order to do so again in the future. According to the ALDS 2013, the Army continually examines past paradigms and assesses their relevancy to prepare leaders for the operational and strategic challenges of the future. … Leaders at all levels embrace both their direct responsibilities for developing leaders as well as understand and support the “big picture” of how the Army deliberately, continuously, and progressively develops leaders.21 Leader development is essential to the Army’s success today and in the future. The Army’s strategic leaders of tomorrow are serving in entry-level ranks and positions today. The Army’s senior leaders have charted the course by publishing the ALDS 2013. To maintain an Army of competent and committed leaders of character with the skills and attributes necessary to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century, leaders must train, educate, and provide experiences to progressively develop subordinate leaders so the Army can prevail in Unified Land Operations using Mission Command in a 21st century security environment. … Leader development is a mutually shared responsibility between the institutional Army (education or training institution), the operational force (organization or unit), and the individual.22 Col. Frank Wenzel, U.S. Army, retired, is the chief of the Army Leader Development Division in the Center for Army Leadership, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was the lead author of the Army Leader Development Strategy 2013. He holds an MMAS and an MS in adult education from Kansas State University. Notes 1. U.S. Army, Army Leader Development Strategy (ALDS) 2013 (Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 2013) 3, http://usacac. army.mil/cac2/CAL/repository/ALDS5June%202013Record.pdf, accessed 5 May2015. 2. Figure reconstructed from the Army leader development model, illustrated in ALDS 2013, 8. 3. U.S. Army, ALDS 2013, 4. 4. U.S. Department of Defense, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, by Leon Panetta (Washington, D.C: U.S. Department of Defense, January 2012), http://www.defense.gov/ news/Defense_Strategic_Guidance.pdf, accessed 5 May 2015; U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Capstone Concept for Joint Operations: Joint Force 2020 (Washington, DC: Joint Chiefs of Staff, 10 September 2012), http:// www.dtic.mil/doctrine/concepts/ccjo_jointforce2020.pdf, accessed 5 May 2015; National Intelligence Council, Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds (Washington, DC: National Intelligence Council: December 2012), http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/GlobalTrends_2030.pdf, accessed 5 May 2015. 5. Army Doctrine Publication (ADP) 6-22, Army Leadership (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office [GPO], August 2012), 5. 6. Army Regulation (AR) 350-1, Army Training and Leader Development (Washington, DC: U.S. GPO, 19 August 2014), 26. 7. ALDS 2013, 23. 8. AR 350-1, 6. MILITARY REVIEW  July-August 2015 9. Army Leader Development Division, “Initiative Summaries,” Army Profession and Leader Development Forum 15-2, 24 Feb 2015, https://www.us.army.mil/suite/page/517997, accessed 25 March 2015. This site is accessible only with an Army Knowledge Online account. 10. U.S. Army, ALDS 2013, 3. 11. Ibid. 12. Ibid., 11. 13. Ibid., 4. 14. Center for Army Leadership, Commander’s Handbook for Unit Leader Development (Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Center for Army Leadership, 2011) 2, http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/ CAL/repository/CommandersHandbook.pdf, accessed 5 May 2015. 15. U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Center for Army Leadership, Leader Development Resources website, http://usacac.army.mil/ CAC2/CAL/resource-library.asp, accessed 25 February 2015. 16. U.S. Army, ALDS 2013, 8. 17. The Virtual Improvement Center is available at the MultiSource Assessment and Feedback website, https://msaf.army.mil, accessed 5 May 2015. 18. U.S. Army, ALDS 2013, 11. 19. Ibid. 20. Ibid., 12. 21. Ibid. 22. Ibid., 6. 41