The purpose of this text is to provide a primer and ready reference to officers preparing to assume command and management positions of senior and strategic leadership. While the primary objective of this reference text is for use in conjunction with the Department of Command, Leadership, and Management (DCLM) portion of the U. S. Army War College (USAWC) curriculum, there are additional objectives which serve broader purposes. These other objectives include its use: by nonresident students in meeting objectives of the Corresponding Studies Program; as a general reference by service schools in the military education system; and as a primer for all who seek to understand better the Army's organization and functions, and how its systems and subsystems operate and are interrelated. Army interfaces with the other Services and the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the unified commands are addressed, but the major focus of the text is on the United States Army; a large, complex organization with operations and activities extending around the globe.

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Introduction / Part one: the Army as an organization. Integration of the army organizational life cycle -- Army structure: the Army as an organization -- The relationship of joint and Army force planning -- Army force development -- Planning for mobilization and deployment -- Reserve components / Part two: Army systems and subsystems. Force readiness -- Army planning, programming, budgeting, and execution system -- Resource management -- Materiel system research, development, and acquisition management / Part three: management and management support systems. Materiel system: logistics policy and procedure -- Military personnel management -- Civilian personnel management -- Army training -- Army information management -- Installation command and management -- Intelligence organization and management -- Army health services support system -- Management of legal affairs -- Civil functions of the Department of the Army -- Public affairs / Appendix A: list of figures -- Appendix B: acronym list.