A systems perspective is beginning to permeate doctrine. This perspective calls for an analysis of the key systems of an adversary. PMESII is an acronym that stands for political, military, economic, social, infrastructure, and information systems....
Lecciones aprendidas: división multinacional sur-central. Teniente Coronel Robert Strzelecki, Ejército Polaco; La Guerra Global contra el Terrorismo justificó desplegar más tropas polacas en apoyo del esfuerzo de posguerra de la Coalición en...
Winning the Counterinsurgency Fight in Iraq: The Role of Political Culture in Counterinsurgency Warfare 2003-2006 in Iraq is written to provide insight into the importance of political culture in relation to developing a counterinsurgency strategy....
Since the events of September 11, 2001 the United States military counternetwork operations, theory, and doctrine have failed to account for the form, function, and logic of clandestine cellular networks used by both interstate insurgencies, such...
The influence effort is one of the key parts of success in the Global War on Terrorism. The US government must do everything possible to be effective in winning the war of ideas. This monograph will explore the efficacy of assigning a US military...
Measured in blood and treasure, the war in Iraq has achieved the status of a major war and a major debacle. As of fall 2007, this conflict has cost the United States over 3,800 dead and over 28,000 wounded. Allied casualties accounted for another...
For military operations, the counterinsurgency environment is perhaps the most complicated and arduous environment in history. Often, government and military leaders are unsure how conventional forces should deal with an inferior enemy who stays...
Accounting for religion and other cultural aspects of the operational environment continues to be a challenge for the United States military. The basis for this is scientific rationalism embedded in military problem solving processes. It is also a...
There is a long historical precedent of great powers utilizing surrogate forces as an economy of force measure in the pursuit of their objectives. The lessons learned during the ideological brush fire conflicts of the Cold War are relevant to the...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the question of how modern terrorist groups manage to survive in the face of aggressive counterterrorist operations by security forces. Al Qa'ida survives to this day, despite the destruction of their...
Suicide terrorism is re-emerging as the dominant tactic in asymmetric warfare. Al Qaeda in association with affiliates in the greater Salafi-jihadi movement conduct suicide terror or martyrdom campaigns against strategic and operational targets....
Even though Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom have created a surging trend of research and literature connected with irregular warfare, there is still inadequate study and appreciation of the United States commitment in the Philippines at the...
During his September 2003 to September 2004 deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major Thomas Neemeyer served as the intelligence officer (S2) for the 1st Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, based in the Iraqi city of Ar...
Assigned to the 8th PSYOP Battalion, Major Robert Haupt has deployed twice in support of the Global War on Terrorism, first in the summer of 2003 as a liaison to Combined Joint Task Force 180 in Afghanistan, then from July 2004 to April 2005 as...
United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
This is the first in a series of reports by the Majority and Minority staff of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Committee) on the threat of homegrown terrorism inspired by violent Islamist extremism. The Committee...
As an All Source Intelligence Technician with 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in Tikrit, Iraq, from March 2003 to March 2004, Chief Warrant Officer Bryan Gray provided the brigade commander, Colonel James Hickey, with tactical intelligence...
In Iraq from January 2005 to January 2006, Colonel Joseph DiSalvo commanded the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team. Responsible principally for the Rasafah district of Baghdad - located on the east side of the Tigris River - in an area...
This second of two interviews with Lieutenant Colonel Bentley Nettles deals with his July 2004 through January 2005 deployment as the information operations (IO) field support team chief for III Corps in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He...
An individual augmentee with V Corps out of Heidelberg, Germany, tasked for duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major John Lorenzen arrived in country in January 2006 thinking he was going to be assigned to the combined staff logistics shop...
Major Jeremy Lewis, Infantry, deployed to Iraq for a second Operation Iraqi Freedom tour as an advisor to a special police transition team (SPTT) from November 2005 until April 2006. His previous tour had been as a company commander with the 3rd...