ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

Recently, my 8-year-old son and I were reading Who Was Abraham Lincoln? by Janet Pascal during one of our pre-bedtime rituals. In terms both a child and a professional soldier can understand, Chapter 8 speaks of the significance of the words delivered by a president during a time of war, dedicated...

The mentor-mentee relationship is one of the most productive ways of learning. Those with mentors are more likely to stay in their career field and have measurable advantages over their peers who receive no mentoring. Soldiers often talk about professional development as a top priority, yet there is...

The Army is facing an unprecedented recruiting crisis. The service missed its recruiting target by about 15,000 new soldiers for fiscal 2022, coming up 25% short of its goal. When I reflect on my 20 years of military service, I ask myself how this can be possible. Then I remember the wide range of...

Guidons and flags waved gently in the breeze as senior leaders from across the Army prepared to address the gathered soldiers. On June 6, nearly 80 years after D-Day and the invasion of Normandy, France, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville presided over the activation of the Army’s first...

For decades, the U.S. Army’s advantages in both lethality and protection largely guaranteed overmatch to units conducting counterinsurgency operations. These operations in Iraq and Afghanistan relied on small units, principally at the company level and below, to accomplish tactical, operational and...

The U.S. Army’s recruiting crisis—active, Guard and Reserve—should spark two important conversations both within the military and, more importantly, among America’s elected leaders. The first conversation concerns how to adapt the Army recruiting enterprise as well as departmental personnel policies...

The topic of culture and climate is one of the top agenda items for the Army’s senior leaders. Unit or organizational culture and climate—or command climate—is, by definition, an integral part of everyday life in the Army. Every unit, formation, company and command has a culture, which is an outcome...