Foreword from Major General Lionel C. McGarr: This Special Report represents a record of events occurring during my tenure as Commandant, which I consider especially significant. It treats the 1956-57 College in sufficient detail for orientation with respect to changes instituted in the 1957-58 school year. In addition it indicates refinements and continued improvements developed for the 1958-59 course being conducted and the 1959-60 course now in preparation. The report correlates and places events of this period of change in proper perspective. My assignment to the College in July 1956 provided a unique and challenging opportunity, coinciding as it did with the pentomic reorganization at division level and the resultant necessity for the development of completely modern doctrine for its employment. Forced by the fast-moving pace of technology, the College, at that time, was also faced with the concurrent requirement for the accelerated production of doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. Even more important, the complete integration of these interacting developments into instruction was a vital necessity if the Army was to remain an eminent part of the Tri-Service Defense Team. This report makes no attempt to treat all periods of my tour with equal priority. Rather, it concerns itself primarily with the chain reaction of problems growing out of the rapid compression of time on the nuclear battlefield caused by the unusual set of circumstances described above and the consequent resulting decisions for planning, preparing, and presenting the 1957-58 course. In recording in detail the interrelationship of the reorganization of the College and the complete rewrite and reorientation of the 1957-58 curriculum, I am hopeful that other school commandants who may be faced with the necessity for fundamental change may find this report helpful.

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