Training Management and Operation Anaconda: What Have We Learned?
Operation Anaconda has been studied through various lenses about the inefficiencies and successes within this operation. Unfortunately, this operation is primarily known for the problems it encountered amongst the internal parties and the irreversible damage due to poor planning and coordination. With the advances in military technology and intelligence, it remains vital that training management is a top priority in the design, application, and execution of all military operations to ensure unified and successful mission outcomes while minimizing inefficiencies that were noted in the Operation Anaconda Case Study.
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334). Yet, we did learn that one of the primary reasons Operation Anaconda resulted in eventual success was due to the performance of senior non-commissioned officers. “The Army’s soldiers and unit leaders – particularly the NCOs – performed superbly, and generous helpings of praise are due for members of all services in the fight” (Killebrew, 2005, pg. 85). One needs to look at the positive and negative in this outcome. Apparently, the training the NCOs received was strong enough that it served them well in a time of need when the senior commanding officers from JSOC did not have a coordinated plan of command and …show more content…
As we have learned through our case study and peer-reviewed articles about Operation Anaconda, that we can learn from the mistakes of the past. However, lives can never be recovered, nor injuries (physical and mental) cannot be erased. Learning from the past and building strong and effective training programs for all levels of the military will increase our effectiveness and readiness. We need to not become so overconfident that it ends up costing us lives and our mission outcomes. We are left learning the following about Operation Anaconda.
“First, technology overconfidence, particularly among high-ranking commanders and staff, deludes American forces into believing they can dissolve the fog of war. Second, there is an insistence, reinforced by information technology, for high-ranking commanders to try to impose their will on very distant battles. Third and finally, there is a continued American compartmentalization of operations, nothing in planning and execution. At any given point of Anaconda, a tragic situation could have been avoided if one headquarters had shared information with another” (Czarnecki, 2005, pg.
Operation Anaconda has been studied through various lenses about the inefficiencies and successes within this operation. Unfortunately, this operation is primarily known for the problems it encountered amongst the internal parties and the irreversible damage due to poor planning and coordination. With the advances in military technology and intelligence, it remains vital that training management is a top priority in the design, application, and execution of all military operations to ensure unified and successful mission outcomes while minimizing inefficiencies that were noted in the Operation Anaconda Case Study.
Create Training Management in Joint Planning
When Operation …show more content…
334). Yet, we did learn that one of the primary reasons Operation Anaconda resulted in eventual success was due to the performance of senior non-commissioned officers. “The Army’s soldiers and unit leaders – particularly the NCOs – performed superbly, and generous helpings of praise are due for members of all services in the fight” (Killebrew, 2005, pg. 85). One needs to look at the positive and negative in this outcome. Apparently, the training the NCOs received was strong enough that it served them well in a time of need when the senior commanding officers from JSOC did not have a coordinated plan of command and …show more content…
As we have learned through our case study and peer-reviewed articles about Operation Anaconda, that we can learn from the mistakes of the past. However, lives can never be recovered, nor injuries (physical and mental) cannot be erased. Learning from the past and building strong and effective training programs for all levels of the military will increase our effectiveness and readiness. We need to not become so overconfident that it ends up costing us lives and our mission outcomes. We are left learning the following about Operation Anaconda.
“First, technology overconfidence, particularly among high-ranking commanders and staff, deludes American forces into believing they can dissolve the fog of war. Second, there is an insistence, reinforced by information technology, for high-ranking commanders to try to impose their will on very distant battles. Third and finally, there is a continued American compartmentalization of operations, nothing in planning and execution. At any given point of Anaconda, a tragic situation could have been avoided if one headquarters had shared information with another” (Czarnecki, 2005, pg.