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ERIC Number: EJ762030
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Feb
Pages: 10
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1090-8811
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From Swift to Swiss: Tactical Decision Games and Their Place in Military Education and Performance Improvement
Vandergriff, Donald E.
Performance Improvement, v45 n2 p30-39 Feb 2006
In today's arena of military transformation, the newest bandwagon everyone is jumping on is "reform military education." This comes about in light of the complex problems faced by Army leaders in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Army's education and training doctrine was developed to deal with second-generation or industrial war. The existing system did all right to prepare Army leaders, especially its junior officers, to adapt to the unexpected demands of the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nevertheless, the Army leader development system has to do better. As a result, think tanks and military task forces are proposing all kinds of changes to military education, at the levels of joint education, midlevel officer career courses, and senior-level war colleges. This article focuses on Tactical Decision Game (TDG), a tool which provides an efficient and effective way to teach intuitive decision making--or, as the Army calls it, rapid decision making--in aspiring leaders. It discusses how to use the TDG as a decision-making teaching tool and provides a set of general guidelines when using TDGs. It also discusses its implications for performance improvement and its applications in the nonmilitary world. Ultimately, TDGs, in the context of a learning organization of an adaptive leader's course, provide an educational approach for building a cadet's strength of character. The Army is beginning to realize that the foundation of an effective future officer corps must begin early and, to create leaders that are adaptable, know "how to think" and have intuition. (Contains 3 figures.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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