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Foreword

From the Director U.S. Army Capabilities Integration Center

The U.S. Army continues to answer the Nation's call, as it has since its inception over 235 years ago. As we look to the future, our Army faces an operational environment fraught with uncertainty and complexity that will challenge our Soldiers, leaders, and organizations in many ways. Enemies of the U.S. are likely to emulate the adaptations of recent opponents while taking advantage of emerging technological capabilities and instability to pursue their objectives and avoid what they perceive as U.S. military strengths. The challenges of future armed conflict make it an imperative for the Army to produce leaders and forces that exhibit a high degree of operational adaptability.

TRADOC Pam 525-8-3, The U.S. Army Training Concept 2012-2020, expands on the ideas presented in TRADOC Pam 525-3-0 and TRADOC Pam 525-3-1, and identifies training requirements and capabilities necessary to build and sustain an Army that is adaptable in fullspectrum operations in 2012-2020. It emphasizes the importance of achieving boots-on-ground dwell times that will allow both active Army and Reserve component commanders to manage the training of their units. Cognizant of the need to develop adaptive, flexible, and versatile leaders and units, to operate in a complex operational environment, it recognizes the need for unit training to reflect these realities.

TRADOC Pam 525-8-3 provides a key contribution toward achieving the broad goals outlined in TRADOC Pam 525-3-0 and TRADOC Pam 525-3-1. With an eye towards developing operationally adaptive units throughout the force, TRADOC Pam 525-8-3 imparts essential guidance on how to enable commanders to provide unit training with the freedom to develop unique and innovative solutions to problems by empowering them to the lowest practical level. Within a resource-constrained environment, concepts serve as a foundation to help the Army maximize effectiveness and to minimize risk through materiel and nonmaterial trades. This concept serves as a point of departure for wide-ranging discussions, experimentation, and investigation. It represents a significant step forward in an ongoing campaign of learning and directly contributes toward institutional adaptation across the Army.

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Department of the Army Headquarters, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command Fort Monroe, Virginia 23651-1047

TRADOC Pam 525-8-3

7 January 2011

Military Operations

THE U.S. ARMY TRAINING CONCEPT 2012-2020

FOR THE COMMANDER:

OFFICIAL:

JOHN E. STERLING, JR. Lieutenant General, U.S. Army Deputy Commanding General/

Chief of Staff

History. This publication is a new United States (U.S.) Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) concept developed as directed by the TRADOC commanding general for the future force and as part of the capabilities-based assessment (CBA) process.

Summary. TRADOC Pamphlet (Pam) 525-8-3, The U.S. Army Training Concept, 2012-2020, is the Army's visualization of how it will provide training for units to execute full-spectrum operations in a joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational operational environment. This concept identifies desired current and future capabilities to overcome anticipated challenges in the training environment. This environment is characterized by persistent conflict, uncertainty and surprise in which there are multiple complex challenges across the globe.

Applicability. TRADOC Pam 525-8-3 is the foundation for the development of unit training for future Army forces and serves as the baseline for follow-on CBA as a part of the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System effort. As the basis for performing this assessment, TRADOC Pam 525-8-3 suggests a set of capabilities that guide how a future commander may utilize training across the domains of doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF) to augment mission capabilities. It acknowledges the requirement to consider all the variables of the future operational environment: political, military, economic, social, informational, infrastructure, physical environment, and time. It also acknowledges the requirements for mission variables such as the

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