
“… sensors are ubiquitous, multi-domain and capable of discreetly and accurately locating and targeting any and everything moving in the battlespace.

The following Unified Quest report is representative: There is converging and compelling consensus that significant discontinuities in the character of warfare are imminent indeed, perhaps already upon us. The Army Staff, particularly DAMO-SS and the CSA’s Strategic Studies Group, has independently examined the future character of warfare. The Army Capability Integration Center’s (ARCIC) Unified Quest events have addressed similar topics and their implications for future operations. It has updated its Operational Environment forecast with a focus on the future character of warfare. Recent TRADOC G-2’s Mad Scientist projects have explored the Strategic Security Environment, Dense Urban Operations, the future of Cyber Operations, and Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy.

Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) has adroitly reshaped its ongoing study of the future Operational Environment out to 2050, as well as its Campaign of Learning and 2025 Maneuvers. The Army Chief of Staff GEN Mark Milley has challenged the Army and its external stakeholders to fundamentally reassess their assumptions on warfare’s future character. TRADOC G2 Operational Environment Assessment Bowers travels extensively throughout the world conducting retreats for the military and providing pastoral support to armed forces and institutional chaplains.An Advanced Engagement Battlespace: Tactical, Operational and Strategic Implications for the Future Operational Environment He now serves approximately 5,000 servicemembers as director of chaplaincy ministries for his denomination. Your life will be changed because of the life of one chaplain whose only purpose was to serve God and to share His love with others.”ĬURT BOWERS worked 23 years as a United States Army chaplain, reaching the rank of colonel. “You will find this book to be heartrending and shocking," Brig. In this poignant account of over two decades in the chaplaincy, Curt Bowers reflects on the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the evil, the triumphs and the setbacks experienced from living with and ministering to hundreds of military personnel throughout his tenure-including those in the unforgettable turmoil known as Vietnam.

Who ministers to men and women thousands of miles from home, where everything familiar is swept away in endless sea, sky, and strange terrain? Who is there to help servicemembers work through the eternal issues of life’s purpose when faced literally with life-and-death situations? For over 200 years it has been the military chaplain.
