TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01 - TRADOC - U.S. Army

From the Commanding GeneralU.S. Army Training and Doctrine CommandForewordIn August 2006, I directed a study to take a thoughtful and detailed look at what we arecalling the Human Dimension. In looking to an uncertain future from 2015 to 2024, as we havein other concepts, we envision an increasingly complex future operating environment that willchallenge individual Soldiers, their leaders, and their organizations in unprecedented ways. Iwanted this study to serve as a point of departure for wide-ranging discussions, research, andinvestigations into the performance, reliability, flexibility, endurance, and adaptability of anArmy made up of Soldiers, their families, civilians, and contractors.The Army cannot afford to focus only on current operations as a predictor of the future. Itmust prepare people so that future commanders can sustain operations in a time of persistentconflict. Approved Army concepts describe the employment of Soldiers in the future. TheUnited States Army Study for the Human Dimension goes further to explore human factors in waracross the range of military operations. This study reaches beyond the issues of equippingSoldiers with hardware tools of war into the more subtle moral-ethical, intellectual, and physicalcomponents of Soldier development. We will follow this study with a formal approved conceptin the near future.The Army will always rely on an array of capabilities developed by other Services and thelarger joint community in order to achieve its conceptual goals. Similarly, the entire joint forcewill regularly participate in multinational and interagency operations in the future. Thus, Istrongly encourage the use of the Human Dimension study in our interactions with other Servicesand joint organizations, both to advance the intellectual dialogue regarding future operations andto strengthen the basis for defining future Army and joint requirements, in the spirit of jointinterdependence. In the same vein, recognizing that the Army and the other services operate insupport of the Nation, and that many of the required capabilities this study reveals are beyond thecapability of the Department of Defense, I welcome and encourage comments from an evenwider community.As with all concepts, the Human Dimension concept, when published, will be in continuousevolution. I expect it to spur thought, motivate investigation and illuminate, through a structuredapproach, a strategy for the coordinated and holistic development of future capabilities. I thinkof it as an agent of change, change necessitated by an uncertain future in which the Army must becapable of responding to everything from humanitarian assistance to major combat. It will berefined and updated as new learning emerges from research, operational experience, and theresults of continuing investigations into future operations.i