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Definition

• Learning is the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes through study, experience, or instruction and includes both training and education.
• A never-ending progression that includes understanding why something is important — the intent of learning.
• Learning is much more than gathering information or reciting facts; it includes cognitive, physical, social, emotional, ethical, and cultural components.

Accomplishment

• We earn the trust of others by demonstrating competence, a sense of responsibility, loyalty, and self-discipline.
• Competence is having sufficient knowledge, judgement, and skills to perform a particular duty, job, or function.
• Training prepares you to deal with the known factors.
• Education prepares you to deal with the unknown factors.
• Both are needed for readiness and effectiveness.

Intelligence

• Maneuver warfare requires intelligent leaders at all levels who possess a bias for intelligent action.
• Success in warfare depends on developing an intellectual edge to accurately recognize cues, quickly make sense of information, and respond effectively.
• This intellectual edge is based on developed knowledge and experience that allows you to shape conditions and events to your advantage.

OODA

• The warfighter who recognizes what is happening, adapts to the situation, and then makes effective decisions in the shortest amount of time will typically have an advantage.
• Observe your environment to recognize key cues, synthesize these cues to orient and quickly make sense of the information in order to decide and act — and then start the cycle again as you observe the effects of your actions.

Application

• Includes effectively communicating decisions to your teams.
• Use skills such as critical thinking, reasoning, viewing situations from multiple perspectives, and visualizing the battlespace in nonlinear terms.
• Determine the best course of action within operational and tactical time constraints.

Judgement

• You must understand how the body and mind respond to fear and stress so that you can better control your responses in any situation.
• Combat can challenge unit cohesion and present you with a variety of moral and ethical dilemmas.
• You develop strong mental, moral, spiritual, and ethical understanding because they are as important as physical skills when operating in the violence of combat.

Competence

• Time spent learning how to effectively think and solve problems is time well invested.
• You must build the skills to recognize potential problems, reason, and think critically.
• Critical thinking is the reflective part of that reasoning which includes inference, evaluation, interpretation, and explanation.

Intent

• Develop the temperament to persevere amidst uncertainty and the mental agility to succeed in fluid and chaotic situations.
• Understand the dynamic and complex situation from multiple perspectives to determine how to exploit an advantage.
• Understand the situation and execute actions to support and achieve the commander’s intent.

Principles

• Know yourself and seek self-improvement.
• Be ready and willing to learn.
• Understand why you are learning.
• Provide and receive constructive feedback.