Maneuver Center of Excellence and its Support of the Brigade Combat Team

<p>Recommendation Number 9 from the Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) report recommended among other things the consolidation of the U.S. Army's Armor and Infantry Centers and Schools at Fort Benning Georgia to create a Maneuver Center of Excellence (CoE) for ground forces training and doctrine development. Shortly following approval of the BRAC recommendations the U. S. Army issued change two to its Army Campaign Plan (ACP). Its purpose was to direct planning preparation and execution of Army operations and Army transformation within the context of ongoing strategic commitments to include the Global War on Terror (GWOT). In response to guidance given by the ACP and BRAC the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) issued a memorandum dated 13 October 2005 and titled Initial Planning Directive - TRADOC Areas of Interest where the Commanding General (CG) of TRADOC directed the organization to initiate action to plan prepare and execute a detailed assessment of CG TRADOC Areas of Interest (TAI). A focus group organized and titled TAI 3 - Redesign for Excellence executed the task of developing an organizational structure for all Centers of Excellence within TRADOC. This paper uses the organizational structure for the planned Maneuver CoE to evaluate how a CoE supports the Army's transformation effort to create modular combined-arms brigade combat teams.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>