United States Army Combined Arms Center FM 7-0 Training for Full Spectrum Operations Combined Arms Center for Training BG Abe Abrams

United States Army Combined Arms Center FM 7-0 Staffing May 06 Issue Paper #1 Revision Concept May 06 Issue Paper #2 Principles of Training Sep 06 Issue Paper #3 (Training & Leader Development) Dec 06 Issue Paper #4 (Training to Conduct FSO) Feb 07 1 st Draft Staffed June 07 2 nd Draft Staffed May - Dec Jan - June July - Dec Jan - June July - Dec Nov 07 4-star review Dec 07 – Jan 08 PME Student Survey Mar 08 CSA Focus Group (AWC & ILE/SAMS) Feb star conf. (FM 7-0 review) May 08 CSA Final Review June 08 Army-wide staffing April 08 3-star conference Joint GO conference Roadshow May - August Mar 07 TDCC IV June 07 TLGOSC CADD editAPD edit July 08 ATLDC 2 Dec 07 CSA update FM 7-0 Published Blue = future events Aug 07 VCSA Update Sep 07 CSA Update Rewrite Process Similar to FM 3-0 Rewrite Process Similar to FM 3-0

United States Army Combined Arms Center 122 pages The ‘How To’ of Training Tactics, Techniques & Procedures The ‘What’ of Training Consolidated 243 pages Army Training Network (TKN) 60 pages Development Guidance... Ensure it applies to the entire Army Reduce the size Focus on the principles Move Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures to FM 7-1 Make FM 7-1 web-based Address generating force support to operating force Concept Doctrine Examples Best practices Easily updated Collaboratively Reviewed, as needed Solutions to training challenges TRAINING FOR FULL SPECTRUM OPERATIONS 3

United States Army Combined Arms Center 4  Principles: Train as You Will Fight  “Fight” includes lethal/nonlethal  Develop agile leaders, comfortable with ambiguity  Change The Army’s Training Mindset (Training is Different)  Driven by FM 3-0 Operations  No return to a strict focus on major combat operations – offense and defense  Train an expeditionary Army; develop agile leaders  Train for full spectrum operations as depicted by the Aim Point  Training must focus on most important tasks  Core Mission Essential Task List  CMETL establishes training focus before a unit trains for a directed mission  CMETL constant, but training conditions and supporting tasks to be trained based on single operational theme The BIG Ideas

United States Army Combined Arms Center  Directed METL  DMETL establishes training focus for a unit’s directed mission  DMETL conditions and supporting tasks to be trained based on the conditions for the directed mission  Core METL is a start point for developing DMETL  Commanders’ Dialogue  Between commanders before conducting the training briefing and finalizing the contract  Clarify expectations and requirements – Specific collective tasks to train – Conditions for training tasks – Resources required for training – Higher assumes risk on those tasks not to be trained  Flexibility for Commanders  Commanders determine the time & frequency of training management events The BIG Ideas 5

United States Army Combined Arms Center 6 NEW concepts: Training the Modular Force  Design may require outside expertise  Training relationships ARFORGEN concept Gaming & Live-Virtual-Constructive Training Environment CTCs as a “bridge” between Generating Force and Operating Force Generating force support to units CHANGED concepts: Principles of training; added tenets Training management model More discussion of training domains, leader development, and Civilian Education System Battle Command training Crawl-walk-run Other Changes

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