Officer training needs overhaul, report says - Army News, news from Iraq, - Army Times: "An era in which military officers find themselves in combat, on humanitarian relief missions, training foreign militaries or hunting pirates demands a new system of training, assessment and promotion that can produce leaders nimble enough to take on such varied challenges, a new think tank study argues.
“The U.S. military must develop a model that trains and educates officers for the complex interactions of the current threat environment while being agile and versatile enough to adapt to a swiftly changing world beyond,” wrote study editors John Nagl and Brian Burton of the Center for a New American Security."
