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To add to those types of missions I would include any military operation in which either the objectives are very unclear and abstract or the operation is structured in such a way as to have a high likelihood of being unbounded in scope and time. The purpose of the Fires WFF is to engage threat elements with lethal and less-lethal joint fires and effects, usually in coordination with manoeuvring ground forces (M2 WFF). We saw in the last days the killing of a really major Hezbollah Commander by an AQ affiliate who is rumored to be supported by the Saudi's. That we have been unable to incorporate the so-called lessons of the early days of Iraq into our operations in Afghanistan should cause us to seriously question the validity and universality of those lessons. HERE is the issue that was recently discussed with a Robert Bunker over on the SWJ El Centro site. Information Briefing Format II. Under democratic theory the political power rested with the people. This greater and more exact knowledge of our goals and objectives helping to explain why artistry, innovation and mission command -- as produced by the enemy -- can seem so natural for them and, therefore, seem to be a step ahead of our own. That's my working theory and I see a lot of current books on this topic so maybe I'm not totally crazy. Both tactical and operational maneuver require logistic support. Centers of Gravity analysis, the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP), and Lines of Effort tools are just a few examples of concepts that appear in military doctrine with few, if any, references. The insurgents currently have the M1E which they use as effectively as they can to trip us up, now imagine the M1E further enabled with digitized surveillance and smart weapons. This positivist[xviii] philosophy would be bad if we simply believed it consciously. So today we, as a nation, are facing an opponent who has recognized our power base and is determined to defeat it in such a way as to have a favorable outcome for their end state. There are so many different flowing themes coming out of Mexico that tangate UW and go to the heart of the discussion being pushed by Robert Bunker on the El Centro site as to the question---just what do we do with Mexico---and really the entire Central American region as the TCOs stretch that far and are destabilizing the entire region--one could actually speak of a war zone rivaling anything we have seen in the last ten years in either Iraq and or AFG. Before falling to the Spanish in 152115211521, the Aztecs left several permanent contributions to history and to the explorers of the New World: chocolate, derived from indigenous cacao beans; tomatoes, potatoes, and numerous other vegetables that have long become staples to the rest of the world; and, as testament to the artisans among the Aztecs, an accurate, 242424-ton limestone calendar that took more than fifty years to construct. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Protection is not a linear activityplanning, preparing, executing, and assessing protection is a continuous and enduring activity. Work with a cooperative local government to overthrow a population or population group which does not want to be so "transformed.". He graduated from The Citadel, has an MBA from George Mason University, and an MMAS from the School of Advanced Military Studies. The open-ended nature of part two however, puts you in a big 'ol pickle. The Staff have maps the Beards would give their right arms for, sat/drone photos they would not believe and a 24/7 live video feed I doubt they could even imagine. The offense cannot sustain itself indefinitely. Informational Brief Instructions (NOTE: This is a . D. the Aztecs had no calendar to determine the best time to grow flowers. We Westerners suffer from the belief that everyone is just like us. Did those deploying understand "swarming" as practiced historically and used in Iraq and AFG? The function includes tasks associated with force projection related to gaining a positional advantage over an enemy. Why assume that the SF/SOF community does not appreciate its "pred" and other feeds in conducting night raids and more typical pattern of life? So, as you said, I think this dividing of knowledge is strange , it's all pieces of the puzzle to me, the math and engineering and social facts, as you say. Ironically, the seemingly bloodthirsty culture, when not participating in an estimated 20,00020,00020,000 human sacrifices a year, took great interest in the beauty of nature; Aztecs, who lacked plows or beasts of burden, took the time to grow beautiful flowers strictly for decoration. Commanders integrate and synchronize these capabilities with other WFF to accomplish objectives and missions. All the while the SOF boys took on more and more of the smaller scale hunter-killer roles that while certainly physically and technically demanding, didn't seem all that "unconventional". I assume.". Thus they are able to remain mission-focused and results-oriented. It is keeping forces supplied with, Thesustainment warfighting function is the related tasks and systems that provide support and services to ensure freedom of action, extend operational reach, and prolong endurance. Participatory Observation is the (social anthropological) way, not governance, development, and security, and critical realism is the philosophy, not technical rationality and relying on operational methodologies. In addition, they are more likely to remain fixated on the hyper-tactical level of operations. [vii] When combined with the other functions- movement and maneuver, fires, intelligence, protection, sustainment, mission command- and welded together through leadership, the Seventh is supposed to enable decisive effects and ultimately success on the battlefield. You and I are not using logical in the same way, your use of the word seems to be more rigid than mine, probably because I make things up and don't worry too much about formal definitions. Like Bill M stated if the enemy acquired ATGMs, beam riding weapons and secure Comms we would be looking a much more lethal conflict ecosystem - to put it mildly. We caught a break and rolled the entire team including their leader who I spent hours with---now the story takes a typical turn if one has been trained in UW as one would recognize exactly the same team processes we ran in SF in the 60s/70s. I think to a certain extent things are still not too bad at the team level. During that time the Beards would have recognized the way the conflict ecosystem changes when a man stepped on a mine, an IED flipped a vehicle and a helicopter was shot down. In my opinion the human domain is nothing more than observations on human nature and has always been a part of military thinking. Regarding my comment immediately below, this from ADM McRaven may be helpful: "You have the maritime, the ground, and the air domains, and then theres a human domain you have to operate in, and thats the totality of the physical and the cultural environment. Upon promulgation of Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1-0 with Change 2, this modified description is approved for inclusion in the next edition of reference (i). Montezuma was killed during a short uprising in 152115211521 while instructing the Aztecs to make peace with the Spaniards. Lastly, all of these capabilities would be used to develop an innovative approach to complex problems, those problems that are inherent when the military attempts social change. d. On the other hand, if the liberal/pro-western reform folks are in power, then you are probably embarked upon a war to help this friendly/cooperative government defeat the more conservative elements within the state and society, to wit: those who are resisting our and their governments' efforts to transform the state and society more along modern western lines. After doing some research online, here is the best definition I could find. [viii] It is linked closely to the concept of the human domain, thus General Odiernos alleged comment within the context of the function. [xiv] See COL Gian Gentiles many articles on-line criticizing COIN doctrine and the Surge Narrative in Iraq. Today is the hour for citizen self-management. Without that systemic logic- the system was doomed to strategic failure. This handout contains the following: I. Desert Storm was largely a result of our impressive logistical system. Its language is one of math and formulaic metaphor,[xvii] its logic is the scientific method, and its philosophy is of the Enlightenment Period. No doubt there are many good reasons to study the local culture but it will teach you nothing about how to counter your average Taliban fighter. The movement in Mexico is called the Autodenfensa---so it is a typical mission for SF---it would have been in fact a mission in the 60/70s---I have deployed with less information and holding the mission-- assist the locals. ~ Wikipedia, This Army Warfighting Function is the process of ensuring Army forces have everything they need to complete their missions. In some aspects the Civilian Defense groups are forcing the military and federal police to start offenses against some of the TCOs but it should be noted that the military and federal police have been are to a degree also corrupted by the TCOs. 2- that this influence undermined the very foundation of our DoD system of systems- which relies on nested purposes and logic from the most tactical all the way up to the President's national security strategy. What is the Seventh WfF? You cannot believe how many times I tried to explain that to MNF-I in countless HUMINT reports.. Dont have the answer, just believe we have been approaching the problem from a myopic viewpoint. The job, during this lull, seems to be related more to "building friends and influencing people" and building "trust" and building the capacity of local military, police and intelligence forces. For example, on the one hand the methodology implores professionals to critically think, but it then defines the specific ways in which one must think about war, a wholly uncritical approach. My empiricism is not the empiricism that you sometimes criticize, is it? This is the reality that stares us in the face when we start talking about the "human domain.". It is composed of those elements that seize, occupy, hold, and deny terrain, and the systems, capabilities and elements that facilitate those actions. Inca, whose feats of engineering baffle modern architects, dominated the west coast of South America from 130013001300 to 153515351535. And all this still ignores the fact that none of this has anything to do with the general idea that the officers leading these organizations, conventional or otherwise, have to be educated. And it does in fact represent a number of UW deployments by ODAs in th 60/70s. And as successful as SF efforts may be locally, they appear to make no headway toward achieving the larger goal of strategic influence of major centers of gravity. It amazes me that all of them can regurgitate the planning process perfectly with enough power point to make Bill Gates proud, but never once have they been asked to think of the implicit forces that their higher is being pressured by, the hidden agenda of the ambassador in the neighboring country, the current environment in Washington, D.C., the private life of the SOCNORTH commander--- all of those things and more can have an affect on one's mission. - See more at: http://www.aspeninstitute.org/node/12081#sthash.YjMssWdV.dpuf. Maya descendants still inhabit the Yucatan, but the technology, religion, and practices of the ancient civilization must now be slowly exhumed and catalogued by archaeologists-a difficult task considering the Maya had no central ruling capital. 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The rules, laws, events and mechanisms of this underlying reality are at play in all of our observable experiences and events. I think you have made many valid points and more importantly direct personal observations based on your experiences. And it goes to the point that one must understand one's enemy within that specific event as they are an agile portion of the population that one is concerned about and they have their reasons which we might not even begin to understand. Identify the six war-fighting functions 1. [xxii] Doctrine applied to the world of tacit knowledge makes little sense and I would argue makes things more confusing. In the natural world, this underlying mechanism refers to the natural laws that have visible effects -- for example, gravity or aging. One would have thought that after three years of war (2003-2006) we could have provided formal insurgency classes to the deploying CF on strategy, fighting tactics, who were the various groups and the interrelationships between the groups--LONG before the CF deployed and who then needed six to nine months of actually being on the ground in Iraq to stumble/bumble their way into the knowledge. The goal, re: the human domain generally and participatory observation specifically, has less to do with "knowing one's enemy" and more to do with developing and maintaining relationships with indigenous personnel; this, so as to be able to (1) defeat the enemy (a resistant standing government or a resistant population group as the case may be) and (2) achieve our objectives without (3) the use of large numbers of U.S. trooops. Logistics 6. Not to compare the two leaders, but you could say the same thing about Hitler's bombing of London. [xxxviii] USDA, Special Operations, ADP 3-05, 2012, 8. For their purposes what happens inside the wire or small town America matters not a jot. Command Deck . This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. The purpose of the Protection WFF is to preserve combat power, the ability of the force to operate in the threat environment. It accomplishes this by engaging with non-military elements, conducting support and development activities to and with them, and coordinating actions between them and the force. The first being the political aspect of military operations and the second being tied to the firstthat democracy is a bottoms up political ideologywhere political power is rested with the people. SW demands from a SF team far more in what Germans call "spitzengefuelhlen" or the feelings in your fingertips or the Art that you refer to. Technical rationality (TR) is closely linked to positivist philosophy and is the antithesis of critical realism: TR assumes the social world can be treated the same as the physical world in terms of philosophical approaches and using the scientific method can gain knowledge about it that can be exploited in action in the future. Bill C---is not human domain really a substitute term for Kilcullens' "conflict ecosystem". WFF are the physical means that tactical commanders use to execute operations and accomplish missions assigned by a superior commander. The intelligence warfighting function is larger than military intelligence. These movements may be partial or complete. [x] Of course, that does not leave too much left. He had a mental age of around 14 and could barely read and write English. [xxviii] To be fair, the writers of this first iteration of the handbook were given a very short timeframe with which to complete the project. Seems like the Autodefensas are a pretty conventional light infantry paramilitary organization (a local Auxiliary, in Roman parlance). This is most likely well and good when SOF is engaged in doing the so-called surgical strike missions of which our nation (and our government to a large extent- to include USSOCOM) is enamored with as of late. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This approach would by definition require the philosophy behind Mission Command, it would prioritize education and training over equipment and process, it would be comfortable with a more context-focused approach to complex operations (and thus maximize flexibility while sacrificing ease of communication, funding, and planning), and it would take advantage of SOFs traditional strengths: its amazing capability at the tactical level. who deny -- or wish to deny -- their people the rule of law, freedom of the press, the right to free and fair elections, the right to economic freedom, etc. Even our own COIN doctrine- which implies that that type of activity is counterproductive, cannot rescue us from the technically rational system, of which it is, ultimately, also a part of. All of which must be done in a lawful manner. I believe that SOF, or at least the Green Berets, should remain in the unconventional world and not get bogged down with the limitations the Conventional Army places on creative thinking. I know on some level it is important to teach the current doctrine. The endurance of Army forces is primarily a function of their sustainment. The danger to SOF does not lie simply with the publication of the handbook: this is simply a symptom of a larger problem. Despite vicious religious practices, the Aztec demonstrated ingenuity by inventing an innovative farming technique to grow crops among the 30 canals of Tenochtitlan. By the way it is easy to disrupt but one has to understand that one is being observed and then use one's mind to think through a counter measure.. Maya, like the Aztecs and Inca, also practiced human sacrifice. 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