Relooking Unit Cohesion: A Sensemaking Approach

ISBN: 1288737939

Author: Van Epps, Geoff

Condition: New

First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2008-01. Unit cohesion is an important consideration in the best of times. In the worst of times - for a unit encircled, low on supplies, out of communication, beset by foul weather, and facing overwhelming odds - cohesion may be the one thing that enables it to hang on and survive until it can breakout or be relieved. The "guarantees" offered by persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), modern communications, and other technologies make it tempting to dismiss as impossible the eventuality of American units being cut off and destroyed. But we ignore this threat, however unlikely, at our own peril, particularly in light of the grave strategic consequences that would accompany such a disaster.