Observation, Discussion, Justification and Recommendation for Geospatial Engineer and Imagery Analyst in the US Army Today

Professionals from various fields work together to build a structurally sound foundation that cannot be shaken. This foundation is the cornerstone on which the Profession of Arms relies. The Army’s professional expertise are rallied in four branches: military-technical expertise, human development expertise, moral-ethical expertise and political-cultural expertise. They are broad areas that allow the Army to operate as a force.

The United States Army is always constantly changing as we are a living breathing organization. From the time that Soldiers were drafted into the Army and went straight to war, to the Soldiers just signing up and doing their time and getting out. In today’s Army there are more and more of our service members staying in twenty years or even longer turning the Army profession into their careers and livelihood. As the Army continues to change we have begun to shift to be a better professional Army. “Professionals require years of study and practice before they are capable of expert work” (DA HQ, 2010, p. 2). Professionals use life-long pursuit to build their knowledge to become an expert in their field. In turn, they then lead, train and develop other Soldiers to become skilled professionals in their

The increase in technology and intelligence will play a crucial role in the development of the Army. Gen. Milley hit on some important notes in regards to unit effectiveness with these changes. The most difficult question discussed revolves around the how to ease armed conflict. The delivery methods of conflict are evolving and have the potential to completely transform warfare. Also discussed within the same context was the standards of national interest. Furthermore, the implementation of robotics creates a potential for warfare to completely be redefined.

The key attributes for the Profession are: expertise, trust, development, values, and service. The key attributes for the Professional are: skill, trust, leadership, character, and duty. These characteristics must be developed in order to be a Profession of Arms. The Army’s professional expertise can be described in four areas: military-technical expertise, human development expertise, moral-ethical expertise, and political-cultural expertise (Dempsey, 2010, p. 7). These areas allow the Army to be able to employ combat power across all the spectrums that it operates

To fully identify how counterintelligence supports the maneuver commander an understanding of the operational framework that the maneuver units operate in must be understood. The Army’s overall conceptual framework has changed over time due to the Army’s participation in conflicts. To appreciate the current mission of maneuver forces a quick glance of recent history must be accomplished. In 1982 the Army’s capstone doctrine focus was AirLand Battle. This primarily

The National Defense University’s, Lessons Encountered: Learning from the Long War, provides a critical analysis from a strategic perspective on the wars in Iraq in Afghanistan. The study concluded that, “Neither national-level leaders nor field commanders fully understood the operational environment.” Indeed, Secretary Robert Gates stated, “our prospects in both countries were grimmer than perceived; our initial objectives were unrealistic… [and] our knowledge and our intelligence were woefully inadequate. We entered both countries oblivious to how little we knew.” Worse, the study identified that after fifteen years of war senior leaders remained unable to identify what or who the enemy is. Recognizing this deficiency as well as the trends in the operating environment, the United States Army and Marine Corps began a multi-year effort in 2005 to develop methods for commanders and staffs to understand complex problems and visualize solutions to solving them. The result was the Army Design Methodology (ADM), which prepares the military for future wars in a complex environment by bridging art and science in an iterative process that facilitates learning, anticipation, and adaptation. The discussion begins with a brief over view of the operating environment before turning to ADM’s utility in preparing for future wars and addressing two of its criticisms.

In a speech at George Washington University in November of 2015, the United States Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter also addressed challenges facing the United States, stating that the security of the US depends on a force better than it is today. This force not only includes the military services, but also extends to the civilian workforce of the combat support agencies, upon which this paper focuses. The vision of the future force is one that can quickly adapt and achieve success in a sophisticated, highly-technical and rapidly changing environment; maximize the benefits of commercial technology development; and address global military competition to defend the nation and make the world a better place.

Developing a skilled and reliable workforce is a very important task for the Department of Defense. In order to maintain or military

First, it has career-long education and training courses that cover both the enlisted and officer corps. Additionally, even young soldiers must be considered aspiring professionals due to their commitment to training and service in the profession of arms. We place enormous responsibility on our young soldiers, such as the M240B gunner firing on the support-by-fire for an infantry assault or the intelligence analyst given a Top Secret clearance and expected to evaluate national secrets. In return we charge these young soldiers to provide expert work in their assigned duty and in

Over the last twenty years the methods, tools and manning utilized for the U.S. to deploy and redeploy our troops and equipment have gone through environmental and philosophical transformations. Traditionally active duty units were deployed as complete

Military Expertise is the next characteristic in the Army profession. In chapter three of (ADRP1) it states “Military expertise is the design, generation, support, and ethical application of land power, primarily in unified land operation, and all supporting capabilities essential to accomplish the mission in defense of the American people” (ADRP1, 2013). That would explain military expertise as a whole for the Army but, there are a lot of different experts within the Army profession. Inside the Army profession there are many different professions and professionals an example would be the aviation branch compared to the combat arms branch two way different professionals within the same Army profession. It takes every ones expertise working together to make the army work as well as it does. Military

As stewards of our profession, commanders ensure that military expertise continues to develop and be passed on to aspiring professionals through operational development. It is during this developmental phase that Professional Soldiers put their knowledge and skills to the test. Operational Army units certify and recertify their Professional Soldiers through repetitive and realistic training events including the Combat Life Saver Course, platoon live fires, and exercises at the National Training Center. In the course of these challenging and realistic experiences, the Army’s operational units develop Soldiers and leaders prepared to maintain high standards, discipline, and operational readiness. Operational development and adaptability will continue to drive changes in Army doctrine, organization, leadership, and education as we enter the post-war era. Without this kind of development, the Army could not maintain a well-disciplined professional fighting force.

Project Abstract: The following is a discussion of the application of Army Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) capabilities which are employed in order to enhance the targeting and effects of the Ar-my’s Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) Sections. The aim is to address how the assimila-tion of assets, programs, and capabilities currently available to the Army SIGINT Community by the Army CEMA Sections could significantly enhance their ability to conduct and execute the war-time mission, thereby enhancing the commanders’ understanding of the enemy’s tactical use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS). This, in effect, would also reduce the time invested in acquiring EMS specific information and increase the precision and execution of Electronic Attack (EA), Elec-tronic Protect (EP), and Electronic Warfare Support (ES) by strengthening and

Human Terrain Mapping was an intentional process designed to gain ethnographic information about are operating environment. HTM information was gathered by platoon-level combat patrols. The goal was for them to ask specific information requirements (IR) about the villages or towns. The importance of human terrain mapping is that it “provided an effective technique to learn and to begin to understand the battle space which we are responsible for.” (“Human Terrain Mapping”. Pg.14) In other words it was vital for the HTS to use the HTM to scale and analyze the territory they were entering to get an educated understanding of the foreign territory. The HTS employees needed the information requirements to enable a unit to move into unfamiliar territory and start to separate the insurgents from the

The Army is a profession because it requires a collaboration of highly training Soldiers who possess specialized skills that combine to operate in complex situations in more complex environments. General Martin Dempsey stated that “The Profession of Arms requires expert knowledge, and that expertise is manifested as unique skills in the individual professional and by Army units.” For the purpose of this paper the operational definition of the term profession is: a type of job that requires special education training, or skill. In order to meet and maintain the demands of this definition, The Army has established the Army Development Model which consists of institutions, operational training, and self-development to create highly skilled service members.