Army Medical Department Transformation Executive Summary of Five Workshops

The Army has been transforming itself into what it calls the Future Force, which relies on a combination of rapid operations, dispersed forces, and superior information to enable a medium-weight force to fight with the punch of heavy conventional forces. These new concepts pose considerable challenges for the organizations that support the combat forces on the battlefield, and the challenge is particularly great for medical forces, which must find, stabilize, and evacuate casualties that are spread across a dispersed battlefield. To determine what the new concepts meant for providing medical support to the fighting units, the Army Medical Department conducted five workshops from 2002 to 2004 to identify the challenges the new concepts posed to providing battlefield medical support and to explore what those challenges might imply for medical force structure.Johnson, David E. is the author of 'Army Medical Department Transformation Executive Summary of Five Workshops' with ISBN 9780833039064 and ISBN 0833039067.