The Romanian Infantry Training in 1943

This article analyzed, the evolution of the Romanian army training in the year of 1943 under German influence. It presents the main issues the Romanian army had to face starting with the low employment of subunits with recruits up to the commanders and soldiers’ level of training as individual fighters. The troupes, commissioned and non-commissioned officers training were accomplished in three stages having presented the results acquired during the war, the proprieties of the newly introduced weaponry, command exercises, field application or ski courses. On the other hand, this article presents the way in which the necessary weaponry was provided, the level of facilities and also the evolution of costs needed for yearly shootings. At the same time there are presented aspects regarding the mutations suffered by the Romanian military education, that had to rise up to the level of the European one; the way in which new classes of officers and non-commissioned officers are trained, the education in military high schools, the training in regular schools and also aspects regarding low-level military training.

Resolving Conflict in Real Time: Operationalizing Culture Transformation in Deployments

ABSTRACT Preparation is the key to performance. The Army invests substantially in team and unit preparation prior to deployments. However, despite the time and training to build camaraderie and confidence in one another, conflict still arises within units. Most training does not address the underlying mindset that is the source of conflict. Army medicine has utilized training material that addresses the mindset source of conflict to improve team and organizational collaboration and outcomes in hospital settings. We adapted this current Army training to conditions in a deployment environment and improved the culture and reduced the conflict in the unit.

Conclusions

Recommendations for each aspect of the rapid transition to war appear at the end of each chapter and specific ones for the U.S. Army in Europe that are related to the emerging MDB concept. Broader understandings at better preparing the U.S. Army for the future transition to war are also given, with an emphasis on army training, education and career management.

Race War in Paradise

This chapter examines the role of Hawai‘i during the Vietnam War, focusing on how discourses of racial liberalism that were cemented through statehood in 1959 became enacted through the military deployments of the 25th Infantry Division. It also discusses the army training practices in Hawai‘i that resulted in some of the war’s most violent campaigns, notably the My Lai massacre. The chapter argues that state violence and racial liberalism were not antithetical but entangled processes of the U.S. empire. The chapter ends by exploring how Hawai‘i’s activists highlighted this entanglement through their participation in the antiwar and emerging sovereignty movement in Hawai‘i.