When intervening forces create a safe and secure environment to implement a whole of government approach, they simultaneously create opportunities for hitherto unnoticed and powerless opponents to do the same--and sometimes more successfully. This...
On December 15, 2011, the U.S. mission in Iraq became State Department-led, and all U.S. military activities became the responsibility of the U.S. Embassy's Office of Security Cooperation--Iraq (OSC-I). There are few, if any, well-known examples of...
Contingency operations are currently taking place in dangerous, unpredictable, and highly volatile environments where local government institutions have weakened or collapsed. In view of these conflict situations, it is recognized that the initial...
MAJ Miguel Torres served as company commander of an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit in Ramadi, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 and as senior advisor for the Iraqi bomb disposal school in Baghdad, Iraq during 2007 and 2008, both in support of...