The military conflict triggered on February 24, 2022 by the illegal and unprovoked aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine in a so-called "special military operation", beyond the great loss of human lives and considerable material damage, calls for a broad reconsideration of the management of military actions and implicitly the skills of the military specialist. Defining the battlefield environment, describing the battlefield's effects, evaluating the threat, and determining the threat courses of action are the important steps for knowing and controlling a crisis or a military conflict. Planning the military force, respectively its capabilities, in order to repel the aggressor's forces, as in the current military conflict situation, is the responsibility of the military specialist at all levels of command: tactical, operational and strategic. The digitalization of education increases the speed of training the specialists in all societal fields and provides new opportunities to access the databases stored in digital format. The transfer of knowledge from printed format to digital support is only one component of the digitalization which facilitates the access to previous research. This impels us to bring to attention the experimental vignette methodology, due to its applicability in the field of E-Learning for training the specialist in the management of military actions. Within the limited space of this paper we will explain the need to apply the experimental vignette methodology in the field of e-learning for training the specialist in the management of military actions, approaching its benefits and shortcomings in managing a crisis or a military conflict situation.

military specialist, E-learning, experimental vignette methodology, digitalization, management of military actions, OODA.