Military Education and Training

Articles that I wrote in 2018

Franz Defregger Der Urlauber

Readers interested in military education and training, and, in particular, the use of decision-forcing cases and other kinds of decision games, may find something of interest in the following articles, all of which I wrote in 2018.

"The Education of the Enlightened Soldier" describes how tutorials at the Wilhelmstein military academy taught Gerhard Scharnhorst how to "think slowly" and how the decision games he played as a young cavalry officer taught him how to "think quickly."

"A Fourth Way in Professional Military Education" proposes that staff colleges, war colleges, and similar institutions build programs of instruction out of decision-forcing cases.

"Decision-Forcing Cases for Logistics" describes the use of decision-forcing cases in the education of military logisticians.

"How to Make a Decision-Forcing Case:  The Military Memoir Method" explains the way that autobiographies can be used to create decision-forcing cases.

"How to Make a Decision-Forcing Case:  The Combat Case Study Method" describes a technique for turning accounts of engagements into decision-forcing cases.

"Preparing for Free-Play Field Exercises:  The Case for Decision-Forcing Cases" argues that historical immersion problems are an excellent means of setting the stage for two-sided, unscripted maneuvers.