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Selected News Items of Interest Other Announcements
“As Neo-Nazis Seed Military Ranks, Germany Confronts ‘An 1. National Training Center (NTC) Sends: “Hard Lessons” –
Enemy Within’,” by Katrin Bennhold. “Cases of far-right extrem- authored by the command sergeants major (CSMs) of Oper-
ists in the military and the police, some hoarding weapons and ations Group, this document specifically draws upon some
explosives, have multiplied alarmingly. The nation’s top intel- of the harder lessons learned by some great battalion and
ligence officials and senior military commanders are moving to brigade-level CSMs who have been there/done that. It is a
confront an issue that has become too dangerous to ignore.” From leader development thought piece for senior noncommissioned
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/world/europe/germany officers (SNCOs) operating at the brigade combat team (BCT)
-military-neo-nazis-ksk.html?auth=login-email&login=email and below level. Whether building a team, training the forma-
tion, managing personnel, or simply trying to figure out their
In an Opinion, “Medics Save Lives. Let Them,” Philip Caruso place on the large-scale combat operations (LSCO) battlefield,
says, “The U.S. military, with its experience in disasters and its our SNCOs are essential leaders in units. This document is
multiple medical corps, could do more to end the pandemic.” meant to help them as they assume their new role as sergeant
From https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/opinion/coronavirus major/CSM. Read more at https://www.milsuite.mil/book
-military-medics.html /docs/DOC-843019.
“Germany Disbands Elite Military Unit Following Reports of 2. “Breaking Doctrine” podcasts. The Combined Arms Doc-
Right Wing Extremism,” by Scott Neuman. “Defense Minister An- trine Directorate (CADD) recently launched an initiative to
negret Kramp-Karrenbauer said the KSK had created a ‘wall of se- conduct podcasts that complement and clarify existing doc-
crecy’ around itself and she told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper trine and concepts. The first episode “Mission Command and
on Tuesday that the elite force had developed a ‘toxic leadership cul- Command and Control” features the CADD Director, COL
ture’ and ‘cannot continue to exist in its present form.’” From https:// Creed, and Army Doctrine Publication 6-0 author, Chuck
www.npr.org/2020/07/01/886458028/germany-disbands-elite Schrankel, discussing changes in this update and the return
-military-unit-following-reports-of-right-wing-extremism of the term “command and control” to the Army’s lexicon.
The second episode is “North Korean Tactics” and focuses on
Snakebite Blog Army Techniques Publication 7-100.2 of the same name. Here,
The Asclepius Snakebite Foundation, COL Creed and subject matter experts from the Training and
which published their JTS Clinical Doctrine Command G-2 cover the intelligence community’s
Practice Guidelines “Global Snake effort to support the Army’s renewed focus on LSCO by pre-
Envenomation Management” in the senting how adversary forces think and act at the tactical level.
Summer Edition of the JSOM, have “Breaking Doctrine” is available to listen (and subscribe) on
the following topics on their blog Apple Podcasts and Google Play Music.
(https://www.snakebitefoundation.
org/blog): “The Truth About Com- Newest Documents and Publications:
mercial Snakebite Kits (including the U.S. Army Response to SARS-CoV-2-Coronavirus Pandemic:
venom extractor),” “Are Baby Rattle- Reflections from the Last 90 Days
snakes Really More Dangerous Than Posted On: 30 Jul 2020
Adults?” and “How to Survive a Snakebite in the Wilderness.” URL: https://call2.army.mil/toc.aspx?document=18073
JLLIS URL: https://www.jllis.mil/index.cfm?disp=cdrview.cfm&
CALL Insider Newsletter Updates doit=view&cdrid=140841
The following are highlights from the Center for Army Lessons This report builds upon the initial CALL report “U.S. Army Re-
Learned (CALL) Insider newsletter. sponse to SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Pandemic 2019: What We
Learned in the First 30 Days.” Further collection and analysis in-
“It is hard to believe August is already here. The lessons learned dicates that the majority of observations, including those that fell
process doesn’t stop, especially given the importance of doc- under the original topic of crisis response, fall within eight primary
umenting the many lessons and best practices from recent focus areas. Since the initial report, members of CALL’s collection
operations and events. For example, we just completed our “Re- and analysis team have focused on reviewing after action reports
flections from the Last 90 Days” report on the Army’s pandemic (AARs) and conducting key leader interviews (KLIs). Every AAR
response efforts and will soon publish reports on civil distur- and KLI will be uploaded into the Joint Lessons Learned Infor-
bance operations and the U.S. Military Academy’s COVID-19 mation System (JLLIS) under the JLLIS Community of Practice at
response. You will also notice the combat training centers the following website: https://www.jllis.mil/apps/?do=copsview&
(CTCs) have increased the volume from their writing programs copid=3383 (registered users only).
these past few months. We appreciate these contributions and
are pleased to share those articles here. In other news, collections USMA COVID-19 Response AAR
are ongoing for Defender Pacific (DP) 2020 fort to port opera- Posted On: 15 Jul 2020
tions, and our analysts will soon move into covering the transi- URL: https://call2.army.mil/toc.aspx?document=18070
tion to a joint task force and multi-domain task force operations. JLLIS URL: https://www.jllis.mil/index.cfm?disp=cdrview
All this is occurring while planning for DP 2021 is also under .cfm&doit=view&cdrid=140799
way. In addition to our new publications and products, I want to Like many other civilian academic institutions and military train-
highlight the Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate’s “Breaking ing centers, the U.S. Military Academy (USMA), located in West
Doctrine” podcasts mentioned in the “Other Announcements” Point, NY, was impacted by the worldwide coronavirus pandemic
section. These podcasts are an excellent resource and comple- in the spring of 2020. The USMA staff quickly initiated plan-
ment doctrine by discussing key concepts and ideas contained in ning to develop a response to COVID-19. Planning resulted in a
these publications. Finally, thank you to those who answered our campaign plan that focused on four major key tasks: return and
call for military analysts (forward)! We received some excellent reception of the graduating class of 2020, the graduation of the
candidate applications, but we still have positions available – class of 2020, subsequent cadet summer training, and activities
contact Mr. Tim Burkett at timothy.m.burkett.civ@mail.mil for surrounding the reception of the new plebe class in late summer.
more information. All planning needed to balance the immediate impact of health as

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