Major General Curt Taylor is the Commanding General of the National Training Center (NTC) and Fort Irwin, California. NTC is the Army’s premier training center and one of the three installations solely dedicated to making the Army’s units and leaders ready for the next fight.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How NTC adapts its training rotations to account for the evolving character of war
- What lessons to take away from the conflicts in Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabach, and Gaza
- How NTC uses cell phone data to locate units during rotation
- Why it is important for commanders to develop an instinct for opportunity and then act decisively to seize it
- How leaders can succumb to information overload and how to avoid “paralysis by analysis”
- What rotational units will experience in the environment of contested logistics
- The unseen benefits of serving at the National Training Center
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