Still Soldiers and Scholars? An Analysis of Army Officer Testing

Authors

Steven J. Condly
Arthur T. Coumbe Dr.
William L. Skimmyhorn Lieutenant Colonel

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Description

Still Soldiers and Scholars? sheds light on a neglected aspect of talent management, namely, officer accessions testing and evaluation. It does so by tracing the history of officer testing since 1900, identifying and analyzing key developments in the assessment process, and then offering recommendations about how the Army should revise its approach to officer testing. This book supplements a series of monographs written by the Army’s Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis (OEMA) and published by the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) in 2009 and 2010. In those monographs, the authors proposed an officer corps strategy based on the theory of talent management. This book is a necessary first step in reforming the Army’s officer accessions effort in order to better align it with the Army’s talent-based approach to officer management.

Publication Date

12-15-2017

Keywords

Military Leadership; Military Professionalism; Military Culture

Recommended Citation

Steven J. Condly, Arthur T. Coumbe Dr., and William L. Skimmyhorn Lieutenant Colonel, Still Soldiers and Scholars? An Analysis of Army Officer Testing ( US Army War College Press, 2017),
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1