Passing the Baton

<p>The purpose of this monograph is to justify the change in staff structure for Army brigades in order to mitigate the complexity of the Peace Operations environment. With peace operations increasing in frequency Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) will provide a bulk of the forces that are executing these missions. While the environment that the BCTs operate in has changed the fundamental organizational structure that enables effective functioning in that environment has not. As the army looks to redesign its staff structure for the future force the Army should account for the increased complexity of the operating environment in its organizational design. This study offers Mintzberg 's organizational design methodology as a way to design an organization for a complex environment. This monograph recommends an increase in rank of the planners at the BCT level. This change will enhance operational cognition at the tactical level enhance parallel and collaborative planning capabilities and enable this echelon to conduct campaign plan maintenance. These capabilities are key in minimizing the operational disconnects that are occurring during Peace Operations. These operational disconnects at the brigade level are hindering the United States from achieving policy objectives.</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>