America Vietnam Tactical Planning According

America Vietnam

Tactical Planning According to the Lessons Learned in Vietnam

I have always perceived myself as an individual with great strengths in the area of practical task orientation. I have a good sense for the most efficient and often the most optimal ways of approaching responsibilities, organizing steps and delegating individual functions. It is thus that I would identify myself as a Tactical Planner. Of the essential role that have contributed to America's armed forces organizations, this one seems best suited to the way that I frame and attack challenges or workplace duties.

In order to determine my suitability to this role, it would be incumbent upon me to reflect on the way that I tend to formulate responses when faces with decisions, difficulties or new opportunities. I realized that while to an extent I do have the ability to see the 'big picture' as might the strategic thinker and while I also have a keen eye for detail as might the logistician, what I really enjoy is pulling my sleeves up and executing real solutions for existing problems.

Certainly, this is an approach that I apply to my daily life and work responsibilities. As an emergency room nurse, I take a direct part in the prioritizing and triaging of patients according to the severity of their respective conditions and areas of need. This requires the quick integration of many details concerning the individual's overall health, the nature of the condition in question and the resources and personnel available to field numbers that vary heavily from peak flow to off hours. This requires me to plan quickly and efficiently while juggling an array of variables. I have found my tactical skills to be of a considerable value in this treatment context.

Naturally though, the emergency room is not a context for independent action. My work as a tactical planner depends heavily on the participation, compliance and competence of those around me. Most importantly, I must know as I delegate responsibilities to the execution of a specific organizational plan that the nurses, specialists and various staff-members around me are capable in their respective positions. Being able to trust certain responsibilities to the skills and virtues of others is an essential part of seeing a tactical plan to its successful execution. Moreover, it is essential that one who identifies his or herself as a tactical planner be capable of recognizing the areas of strength that make personnel so valuable and inherently different from one another. Delegation according to these strengths tends to strengthen the outcome of any tactical plan.

Certainly, evidence drawn from our research appears to suggest these are fundamentally valuable conditions in the military context as well. Here, the tactical planner must know that the soldiers who surround him have been availed by the training and the emotional fortitude to meet planned expectations. This inclines me to reflect on some of the key shortcomings in military strategy imposed by the complex scenario which placed the United States in Vietnam. Here, one of the core failures was a poor sense of individual orientation toward the conflict that most likely draws its origins to the use of so many drafted men. This would produce a situation in which many lacked either the training or the desire to be engaged in a conflict such as this.