AN ARMY AT WAR: CHANGE IN THE MIDST OF CONFLICT

Organizers: The United States Army Combat Studies Institute, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the US Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia.

The Combat Studies Institute will host a conference entitled “An Army At War: Change In The Midst Of Conflict,” This symposium is designed to study/ present/ discuss historical perspectives of Army change in organization, education, training and doctrine, placed in the context of current and future operations and current and projected Army reorganization initiatives. The conference will be held at the Frontier Conference Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 2-4 August 2005, and will include a mixture of guest speakers, panel sessions, and general discussions.

While focusing on historical perspectives of Army change in organization, education, training and doctrine, placed in the context of current and future operations and current and projected Army reorganization initiatives, attention will also be stressed on the examination of how the Army coped with change necessitated by or otherwise executed concurrent with the fighting of a war.

With this in mind, CSI is issuing a call for papers for the conference. It is planned to publish the proceedings of the conference in an edited volume within three months after the adjournment of the conference.

Projected topics include:
• Unit Organization and the Army
• History of Army Organization
• Force XXI/ Stryker Brigades/ UA/UE
• Organizing Army History Agencies to Support the Force
• Modularity: Past, Present, Future
• WW2 Tailoring and Pooling
• ROAD- Army Reorganization in the 1960s
• Modern- Force XXI and Modularity
• Organizing for the Low Intensity Fight
• Fighting Insurgency with Conventional Troops
• Civil Affairs
• Occupations
• The Joint Readiness Training Center Experience
• Military Police Operations
• Cultural Awareness: Education v. Application
• Special Operations
• Information Operations
• Organizing for the Maneuver Fight
• Recon Units
• Mix of Light and Heavy
• Urban Fight
• Combat Support Operations
• Organizing for Battle Command: Historical Perspectives
• Headquarters Units
• Command Post of the Future, Lessons of the Past
• Technology and Transformation
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Communications
• Organizing for the Logistics Fight
• Mobile Operations Logistics
• Modular Logistics
• Light Intensity Conflict Logistics
• Organizing the Reserve Components
• Mobilization
• Force Structure
• Unit Manning and Training
  Army School System and Unit Manning
  Officer Education versus Training
• Transformation and the War on Terror
  Joint Transformation
  Iraq and Afghan Indigenous Forces
  
• Operations of Transformed Forces: Theory v. Reality
• Soldiers and Contractors- What’s the Right Mix?
• Organizing for Homeland/Continental Defense
  Counterterrorism Ops
  Anti-missile Defense

  Please send short proposals (no more than 300 words) for individual papers or panels to LTC Brian DeToy: (before 1 July 2005)
  brian.detoy@us.army.mil
  Phone: (913) 758-2130)
  or John J. McGrath
  email: john.j.mcgrath@us.army.mil
  Phone: (913) 758-2147)
  Combat Studies Institute
  Ft. Leavenworth, KS 66027.

  The closing date for receiving these proposals is 1 July 2005.