How Should the Army Run? Archives - War Room - U.S. Army War College

Jun 24 2024 7 ep. 33 mins 7

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CHASING THE BEST: TALENT MANAGEMENT FOR THE MASSES (HOW SHOULD THE ARMY RUN?)

Jun 24 2024 34 mins

Talent management is simple. All that is necessary is to match the many people in any particular rank and specialty who are moving at a given time to the right job that matches talent, enables professional growth, meets personal and family needs, and maximizes unit effectiveness and efficiency. Maybe it is not so simple after all. Sarah Kaiser and Jacy Park join host Lou Yuengert t

PEOPLE, PRIORITIES & PROGRESS - FUTURES COMMAND: (HOW SHOULD THE ARMY RUN?)

Nov 13 2023 28 mins

What happens when you get three experienced soldiers together to discuss something they've worked on for much of their careers? Well, the first thing that happens is that they "go secure" and start speaking in acronyms. More importantly, you get an enthusiastic conversation about transforming the Army to support soldiers now and well into the future. LTG Ross Coffman is in the virt

ONE-STOP SHOPPING FOR FORCE MANAGEMENT: GFIM (HOW SHOULD THE ARMY RUN)

Oct 02 2023 35 mins

When faced with a challenge, a soldier will always come up with some sort of solution to make the system, process or piece of equipment work. It may not be an elegant solution or a good use of time, but they will find a way to make it work. Lori Mongold and Andrew St. Laurent are doing everything in their power to make sure soldiers don't have to find workarounds to disconnected sy

RESOURCING THE FORCE: MG JOHN FERRARI, RET. (HOW SHOULD THE ARMY RUN?)

Jun 05 2023 39 mins

Plan, Program, Budget and Execute - repeat. It's the strategic planning process for allocating resources in the Department of Defense that was first initiated in the early 1960s. The brainchild of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, it was originally the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting, or PPBS. Over the years the "System" was dropped and replaced with "Execution" yielding t

THE ARMY PERSONNEL SYSTEM: IN SEARCH OF TALENT MANAGEMENT (HOW SHOULD THE ARMY RUN?)

Apr 03 2023 35 mins

Lou Yuengert and Tom Galvin are back in the studio for another episode of "How Should the Army Run?" This episode focuses on Lou's recent service on the Army's Talent Management Task Force. The Army has done relatively well at placing its top performers in appropriate leadership positions, but in an organization of high performers are the other 90% of the personnel being placed whe

UNDERSTANDING THE BUDGET PROCESS (HOW SHOULD THE ARMY RUN?)

Jan 23 2023 31 mins

Tom Galvin is back in the studio for another episode of "How Should the Army Run?" He's joined today by Doug "Muddy" Waters to talk about how the Army (and the rest of DoD) gets its funding. In this stage-setting episode Tom and Muddy discuss Congressional processes like appropriations and authorizations, continuing resolutions, the "color of money", and you'll hear familiar terms

HOW SHOULD THE ARMY (AND DOD) RUN?

Jan 09 2023 31 mins

In 1997, the U.S. Army War College produced the first edition of How the Army Runs (HTAR), a reference handbook that documented and explained the processes and organization of the U.S. Army. Published every two years, the document has evolved along with the organization it seeks to capture in writing. As the editor of the last five editions of HTAR, Lou Yuengert was once asked by a