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Then, as the executive officer to Assistant Secretary of
War George Mosely, and through another challenging
year with MacArthur as his assistant military adviser
to the Philippine government, Eisenhower solidified his
strategic voice.6
Strategic career path #2 (organizer). This path
includes rich early-career experience as a tactical evaluator and then a follow-on teaching assignment to share
those lessons (along the lines of Project Warrior).7 It then
places those with demonstrated aptitude for service at
the general-officer level (demonstrated through exclusively enumerated senior rater reports) to work as a field
grade officer (before and after battalion-level command)
at either the enterprise level in force management or on
the Joint Staff in the same capacity. The Chief of Staff
of the Army Strategic Studies Group and senior fellows
are another set of appropriate assignments for an officer
on this career path. There, he or she would address big
problems for the Army chief of staff directly and, in so
doing, see the larger Army as a member of a handpicked
team. These officers not only are witnesses to the future
development of the Army but, just as important, they
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell communicates
with the Pentagon during Operation Desert Shield. (Photo by Sgt.
Jeff Wright, U.S. Army)

have to write about it. Developing this ability to articulate
through the written and spoken word is a critical element
to the career path of an organizer.
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf—the commander.
Schwarzkopf’s global perspective was developed early
in life while growing up abroad (Iran, Switzerland, and
Germany) from th e age of twelve and learning three
languages. Schwarzkopf’s lifelong interest in the Middle
East and his experiences in combat, graduate school, and
teaching provided him with a strategic maturity that
he would draw upon in the first Gulf War. In 1962, he
attended graduate school at the University of Southern
California and earned a master of science degree in both
mechanical and aerospace engineering. He then taught at
West Point for the first year of his three-year obligation,
before he cut short the assignment by volunteering to become a military advisor in Vietnam. Schwarzkopf’s perspective developed significantly through intense combat
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