Joint Force Quarterly
Abstract
Ιn “Balancing Nonresident Joint Professional Military Education With Military Life,” Commander Doug Morea makes the salient point that the current joint professional military education (JPME) process fails the individual joint warfighter in preparing for the challenges of serving in combatant commands and other joint forces.1 As joint educators, we agree with Commander Morea’s premise and offer that the current JPME model not only fails the individual joint warfighter but is also wholly inadequate for what the joint force requires both today and in an uncertain future. From the start, the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense (DOD) Reorganization Act of 1986 enshrined JPME and the joint qualification process as a forcing function to reduce unhelpful parochialism and achieve unified action. Even today, a compromised system still exists, lacking standardization across the enterprise and persistently delivering educated officers too late and short in supply at all echelons of the joint force.
Recommended Citation
Thomas D. Crimmins, Eric S. Fowler & Daryl A. Chamberlain, "Jointness as Virtue: Increasing the Value of Joint Qualification to the Joint Force and Services," Joint Force Quarterly 114 (3rd Quarter 2024), 51-56, https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/joint-force-quarterly/vol114/iss2/10.
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