The Operational Arch SAMS Integration & Season 2 Finale w/COL Morgado (E30)
Oct 1, 2024
COL Andrew Morgado, director of the U.S. School of Advanced Military Studies and career armor officer with 29+ years of service, discusses how SAMS develops joint leaders and stays relevant. He explains SAMS’ learning methods, operational support through student deployments, the role of alumni feedback, and a practical view of operational art. Readers and lifelong learning also get a spotlight.
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Curriculum Shifts With Operational Needs
- Morgado recalled SAMS' past focus shifts, such as emphasizing counterinsurgency when relevant.
- He noted the current emphasis has moved toward large-scale, multi-domain operations.
Operational Art As Systems Thinking
- Operational art connects tactical actions to strategic outcomes by understanding and manipulating systems.
- It is a mode of thinking that builds hypotheses, tests effects, and sequences follow-on actions.
Read Broadly And Multiformat
- Read broadly across disciplines—fiction, economics, theory—to expand thinking beyond military texts.
- Consume books in three formats (paper, digital, audio) to cover more ground each year.
