The. I think what throws everything off is that: a. This is the future that the ACoS means when he mentions human domain---what he does not mention ---it can only be handled via UW/SW. Or to use the language of the military, your own assumptions. One organizations human domain is not how the ACoS uses it. Required fields are marked *, Copyright (c) 2022 / Part-Time-Commander.com. mation as a joint function is but the first step toward enhancing joint warfighting and developing a future joint force able to dominate in the conflicts of tomorrow. Protection efforts must consider and account for threats and hazards in all directions, at all times, and in all environments. The art of Special Warfare is a creative use of special groups of professionals who are educated and trained to see things from multiple perspectives, to critically think about ones institutions flawed view of the world, create something new that is highly context-dependent across the resource spectrum, and learns while doing. [xxvi] The tactical level (young NCOs and officers) seems in my experience to have largely remained mission-focused and results oriented. D. the Aztecs had no calendar to determine the best time to grow flowers. AND in this scenario COIN will not work. I assume. Well, enough with my psychobabble for now. It prioritizes education and training over platforms and technology as well as persistent engagement over drone strikes, direct action raids, and Hollywood movies. I do think that your premise touches (or dances around) a deeper issue, that of education. [x] U.S. Army, TRADOC Pamphlet 525-3-0, The U.S. Army Capstone Concept, 19 DEC 2012, 15-16. 7 Recent . movement of forces for the purpose of gaining an advantage over the enemy in order to accomplish our objectives. Today, we are going to discuss the Army Warfighting Functions. Though weathered or overgrown, the relics stand as permanent markers of the ingenuity and art of the pre-Columbian civilizations. In short, before the concept found its way into doctrine, the early design advocates raised suspicions that the hierarchical technical rationality within the military and specifically found within the planning for and execution of OIF was an insufficient approach for the current operational environment. Listed below are the main points from those ideas. 2. When someone asked him a difficult question, Walt _____ because he did not know the answer. It reminds me of the old WWII poster loose lips sinks ships. "The goal is not more money, more missions, or more personnel. When COL Chamberlin ordered a bayonet charge from the defense he was banking on the fact that it would cause confusion in the enemy conducting the charge. Both tactical and operational maneuver require logistic support. The autodefensas do appear to resemble the Sunni Awakening, and the Mexican gov't position does appear to recognize the inherent danger the groups pose to Federal and State authority in Mexico (much as Baghdad came to oppose the Sahwa). The mission became one of democratization. Originally a nomadic society inhabiting the central basin of antediluvian Mexico, the various tribes who identified 252525 themselves as Aztec settled in the marshy region near Lake Texcoco and, in 132513251325, founded the city of Tenochtitlan at the present site of Mexico City. "A warfighting function is a group of tasks and systems united by a common purpose that commanders use to accomplish missions and training objectives" (Department of the Army, 2019a, p. 5-2).. The intelligence warfighting function is the related tasks and systems that facilitate understanding the enemy, terrain, and civil considerations (ADRP 3-0). 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. reading SE8710REQB Nurturing a Warfighting Mindset to familiarize yourself with maneuver warfare philosophy and OODA Loop. Desert Storm was largely a result of our impressive logistical system. THEN the IED game got serious as it was the Duke vs a thinking/adapting UW team meaning once they understood jamming principles they simply starting moving the trigger away from the IED in order to figure out the jamming distance which took about ten days of real attempts to figure it out and then they were off and running again. So too is the buzzword "ecosystem.". I first noticed this in Afghanistan where a few of us sat down and attempted to make sense of the disconnect between our official pronouncements and doctrine and the reality of what commanders were doing and saying privately. Thus, given this mission (outlier state and societal transformation) and this problem (the "enemy" can see us coming, so to speak, even before we get on the aircraft), how then might the art and understanding of the sublime help us to overcome these difficulties? You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Flip it over and consider how much time ALQ/Taliban spend studying small town USA in an effort to understand how to best engage the US Army and USMC? To many, Operational Design has come to represent what is fundamentally wrong with recent U.S. Army concepts. As an example, consider the MiTT's of Iraq and all the other special task-organized small teams tasked with directly advising and supporting Iraqi and Afghan security forces. 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. The stereotype that comes to mind is: an infantry E6 is damn good at the workings and mechanics of infantry skills, but that does not mean he can judge when to apply those skills or why, just how. Intelligence is the process of understanding the enemy using all information on the enemy, civilians nearby, and the terrain and weather conditions. monitor than our adversaries, those staff guys watching the screens have little understanding of the operational environment because most of them have no personal interaction with the environment outside of viewing it on their monitor, or adversaries have greater battlefield knowledge and understanding of all the systems that interact in it. Sparapet---this is not a notional example----it is the core problem with such discussions as this one especially when it goes towards UW/SW. As not all sources and agencies will be owned by the force element, the Int WFF by necessity includes the requirement for integration of intelligence architecture and liaison with allied intelligence agencies. The precise, intricate stonemasonry of Inca pyramids, fortresses, and walls commands the respect of even modern masons. New York: The New Press. This likewise helping to explain, for example, why artestry, innovation, etc. And, therefore, the point of our spear came to point in their direction. 21 What is the most important warfighting function? I agree with your assessment, the way we use technology largely replaced our use of the M1E to gain a true understanding of our operational environment, so while we have better battle field awareness on a T.V. Until we can break away from our own institutionally-encouraged paradigms and consciously understand where our concepts come from and the weaknesses inherent within them, we should not expect to operate any better at attempting change in others than we have as of late. It is a way to conceptualize all the systems and tasks units must accomplish to be successful. What is the Movement and Maneuver warfighting function? D. The World Trade Organization (WTO). Russia and Ukraine battle daily in the sky. [xiv] In short, the U.S. Army as an institution is convinced that it was not population-centric enough in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and thus influencing the local population has to be a critical lesson, if not THE lesson we should take from our recent forays overseas. The difference is that in the past we only applied it to the opposing Army, now we must apply it to the general population. (See below). Its antithesis is post-positivism, or, as many prefer to call it- especially within the military- critical realism. Aztec prophets had prognosticated that bearded men would arrive from the east, or the land of the sun god-the Aztec conception of heaven. and are likewise both required to understand it. HERE is the issue that was recently discussed with a Robert Bunker over on the SWJ El Centro site. [xxxvi] Surgical Strike is usually associated with Special Mission Units that conduct Counterterrorism and limited strike, short-duration Direct Action hits. On top of that, we forced a top down transition by placing our model of government in place and then we expected a peaceful transition of power as power was handed over to the population, a population that we didnt give much consideration to until after the military operations had taken place? Observation/surveillance is the only tool that allows for any UW cell to survive. Carefully read the passage and choose the best answer for the question that follows. Sustainment provides the support necessary to maintain operations until mission accomplishment. "This was true for the SF of the 60/70s---the ability to "understand the mission, understand your enemy and understand yourself" before one is dropped in with no support from the outside world.. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The second is related to the first. The key is synchronizing this intelligence with other joint operations. b. We must continue to plan, synchronize, and deliver sustainment warfighting function capabilities. Were learning what their culture is so next time we come back in, they understand who we are, and we understand who they are. [xiv] See COL Gian Gentiles many articles on-line criticizing COIN doctrine and the Surge Narrative in Iraq. Informational Brief Instructions (NOTE: This is a . London: Temple Smith, 1983. One note on the mission scenario your notional SOF team receives.it is not so much a mission as a policy statement. 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. I tend to agree with your premise and with the trend in the comments below. Art isnt something one does while coloring within the lines and SOF shouldnt be looking for a methodology to assist us with it. As Grant opened up the question of SW/UW vs the Special Action side and would suggest that Mexico become the training scenario for SW/UW. And understand that the enemy (government or population, as the case may be), will not, as was thought, be waiting with roses. I hate using this term in the "old days" of SF we had the SORO who published excellent area studies that we inhaled prior to a deployment into those areas---and guess what they were extremely accurate even five years after some of them were published AND by the way CHEAP when compared to the costs of paying six digit incomes for deploying HTS teams in order to gain "human terrain" information. Movement is necessary to disperse and displace the force as a whole or in part when maneuvering. It is normally associated with initiative. Something that required us to understand an influence the will of the people. War is a contest of wills. 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". In plain English, the 7 th WfF is all of the tasks and systems that military units would need to do or have to influence people, taking into account the "socio-economic, cognitive, and physical aspects of human activity". This handbook borrowed much of its concepts from the Armys Design Methodology (ADM). 3 The nature of war does not change, even though the Marine Corps added an additional warfighting function to our lexicon. IO is not a discrete, stand alone capability but is the integrated, coordinated, and synchronized operational application of all information-related capabilities (IRCs) 5, both organic and non-1 Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP) 1, Warfighting, 20 June . Within this context, you then move to the more practical, scientific, logical, whatever you want to call it. As I said in my comment above, Kilcullen's ecosystems seems to me to be another way of saying "this is the world as I understand it," which isn't really a new concept. This being, whether they know it yet or not, our young folks' generational project, which has just begun. His story was we had been hitting you on every patrol and on this particular day a gun truck patrol came by and I detonated--but nothing happened which was strange as they had always worked---kept trying and then when the last truck went by it detonated. 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. For example, Joint Publication 3-12 characterizes cy-berattacks as a form of fires,29 similar in principle to artillery or machine-gun fire, that de- The purpose of the Sustainment WFF is to maintain the forces freedom of action. Well done. Certainly our formidable advantage in hardware and men will readdress this disadvantage considerably but will it boost our prospects a thousand fold? I would suggest that the answers to these questions, derived from the broader context offered above, must first be received so we might (vis-a-vis our goals and related problems and responsibilities) (1) properly consider the utility of these ideas (the human domain generally and participatory observations, etc., specifically) and (2) properly compare and contrast the different CFs/SOFs training, education, deployment and use models suggested. 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. 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. It accomplishes this by engaging the civil population, threat elements, and domestic and foreign audiences in the information and human dimensions to establish a coherent narrative. 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. Those always struck me as SF-light. At the operational level we are sorely handicapped. Take the LeT fighters in Bombay. Also see his book: Wrong Turn: America's Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency. 5. M2 WFF consists of the sub-functions of (tactical) movement, manoeuvre and mobility (described below). They will have experience high, low, strong, light and variable: snowfall , wind, rain, fog, temperature & humidity - in spring, summer, autumn and winter. The human domain![vi] This conversation happened, supposedly, in the context of a discussion about the Armys Seventh Warfighting Function (WfF), which as a concept is still being worked, but would add a function to the Armys list of those six things it must now do to theoretically maximize combat power. That is, we in the Army believe, like the Political Scientist David Easton, "that in order for [military] science to become scientifically mature, it need[s] to internalize scientific principles and methods and focus on the empirically observable behavior of political actors.". Command Deck . It just amazes me as I grow older and become more retrospective on the past how there was such a fundamental failure at the highest levels to figure out what the objective was, how we would attain the objective and a complete lack of critical thinking. Again a team meeting and he asks them if they had see or heard anything about the addition to the trucks---the youngest who was computer smart went then to the local internet shop that had tea and spent all day surfing. Mentioned as inspiration for The Matrix films, one might compare the militarys paradigm to the Matrix: we are locked into it, but unaware of its existence. In the old days of SF UW when the mission was given to us during isolation the first thing a team did was to kick back and go into what one would call the "what if" mode---regardless of how crazy some of the comments or ideas where we went completely through until that was nothing left that could have surprised us ---then the true conversations started and all ideas reviewed and tossed until we were comfortable with the remaining one or two. Unfortunately our schoolhouse is beholden to metrics and check-the-block assessments. If I am to do artestry, then I must at least know what is the subject matter. The NZ Army utilises US Army warfighting as described in ADP 3-0 Operations, July 2019. That strategy is to get more money. Others, such as Carl Builder, mentioned in footnote 12, as well as this authors own experiences highlight the bureaucratic pressures that lead to the chase for more money within government bureaucracies. Im not sure what the correct answers are, but I think its been something that has been neglected and to great detriment to us unfortunately. The warfighting functions are the physical means that tactical commanders use to execute operations and accomplish missions assigned by superior tactical- and operational-level commanders. Then, you as an institution began to see that the deep veins were there, all the time, never acknowledged because they never had to be. The when and why comes from the officer charged with employing the infantryman's skills in conjunction with other skill sets to a purpose that he is charged with by the delegation of executive authority to his level by Article 2 of our Constitution). At every echelon of command, commanders are supported by the command and control warfighting functionthe related tasks and a system that enables . Therefore many in SOF will call a Special Forces (SF) Group a tactical level organization. In addition to having the most advanced medical and surgical techniques of the ancient Americas, the Inca constructed more than 12,00012,00012,000 miles of roadway and aqueducts to supply taxpaying and labor-contributing tribes throughout the empire. It does this through the three sub-functions of movement, manoeuvre and mobility. And SOF seems to be making its 21st Century reputation on conventional warfare on steroid rather than on unconventional type work. If not, if we believe that in the human domain (as well as the levels beyond tactical in all domains) things are highly dependent upon context, fraught with tacit knowledge, and fall more into the art side than the science side,[xxiv] then the preferred philosophy should be the critical realist philosophy. The rules, laws, events and mechanisms of this underlying reality are at play in all of our observable experiences and events. would be safe from effective enemy fire 24/7, versus the random attacks with dumb weapons that are normally way off the mark. I don't mean to sound cryptic but I don't want to open up a can of worms now when I plan to do some fishing later. This handout contains the following: I. The difficulty now in returning to UW or what you call SW is that there is a distinct lack of SF training personnel deeply grounded experience wise in UW---so much of what is being transferred is just from the recent wars. Those who survived were forced to abandon their customs and live beneath Spanish rule for the next three centuries. Viewed from that perspective, the self-defense groups of Michoacn, heroic and dignified, represent a fresh and hopeful alternative that should be recognized and supported. I would put forward the idea that once a society adopts agriculture, at no time in its history henceforth does it exist without an economic elite and "the rest". 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. The role of information in future conflicts is becoming exceedingly important given the explosive rise of information technology. Thus we are left with two choices: either accept that the same conceptual tools and doctrinal concepts that we use for the physical domains can be applied with some minor tweaking to the human domain or approach with at least skepticism the idea that the physical and human domains can be understood using the same paradigms. I had mentioned to Robert in a previous comment that with the Civilian Defense groups could/would the Mexican government tolerate them---in some aspects the CD groups or "AutoDenfensa" groups are pushing back against both the government and the TCOs. This is juxtaposed with an operation like Desert Storm in which the objectives were clear and limited in both scope and time, even if they were limited somewhat artificially and ignoring the obvious connection to Operation Iraqi Freedom. So where are the pilots? The systematic theory is highly suspect, as the Soviet centralized system should have taught us. The human domain![vi] This conversation happened, supposedly, in the context of a discussion about the Armys Seventh Warfighting Function (WfF),". Knowing one's enemy in and out is a cornerstone of guerrilla warfare or as the Iranians call it microwarfare. Therefore, to win by democratize the population we had to understand how to influence the masses: how to work within the human domain. In my opinion the human domain is nothing more than observations on human nature and has always been a part of military thinking. Administrative movement (generally movement via strategic transport) is included in the Sustainment WFF. I call this approach the sublime[xxxiv], borrowing the term from Curtis Whites book wherein he implores America to turn away from assuming science holds the answer to everything and instead to be antagonists to the status quo in intellectual orthodoxy [and to be] advocates for change[xxxv], And so we are stuck in an awful position: we want our cake (a 7th WfF) and we want to eat it too. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. The sublime for SOF, especially those within the Special Warfare framework, can also be art. Its SOF opposite, Special Warfare, is usually associated with Unconventional Warfare and COIN, but in truth includes those operations of long duration and limited footprint wherein a politically sensitive situation precludes a large foreign force on the ground. I'm not so sure the world is a safer or better place than it was 12 years ago. Joint functions represent related capabilities and activities placed into basic groups to help commanders synchronize, integrate, and direct operations. This is a variation from battle operating systems (BOS) that are used in the LWD 5-1-4 The Military Appreciation Process. Instead of ignoring them like a Leave It To Beaver kind of approach to one's higher's OPORD, those things have to be critically investigated. how much does a company pay for h1b visa. western-style nation building. As all actions (words and deeds) undertaken by the force contribute to the coherent narrative, the IA WFF is used to coordinate the actions of the force to ensure a consistent message is portrayed. [xx] The U.S. military and SOF used to do this naturally prior to the Cold War by drastically drawing down the Army and doing away with SOF altogether after a war. Integrate all forms of Army, joint and multinational fires. Certainly an insight into the latter three can be gained from understanding the local culture. Art, admittedly, forces one to take risk. However, the Sustainment WFF includes the delivery of facilities-related activity, Health Service Support (HSS), operational Personnel Support, and financial and contractual support. Special Operations within the U.S. Military faces a crossroads. [i] Ana Purna gives a good description of critical realism on ehow.com (http://www.ehow.com/info_8770255_critical-realism.html): The major themes are these: A reality exists independent of human conception and perception. Students at the SWCS routinely repeat higher's intent- to establish a "legitimate" government in Pineland, for instance, and they never once question the implicit factors that are driving our use of force in the scenario. We have, possibly like the rest of America, become specialists capable of great micro efforts, but terrible at macro vision. Wanat troops depending only on ground sensors and deprived of overhead surveillance the final night get slaughtered on OP Topside. that are part and parcel to these such state and societal breakdown and rebuilding initiatives? The self, the psyche, must be involved somewhere. [xxix] Then-Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Commanding General, General Martin E. Dempsey, according to one anonymous School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) instructor, told the SAMS authors of the draft design publication that it was too long, had too many big words, and didnt have any of our current doctrinal concepts like Center of Gravity in it. Whether this is true or not, shortly thereafter Dr. Jack Kem wrote a short design booklet (Design: Tools of the Trade) that linked design to doctrine and as soon as LTG William B. Caldwell IV left Fort Leavenworth for Afghanistan and took Dr. Kem with him, the original draft authors quickly published The Art of Design, Student Text 2.0, which attempted to undo the changes that TRADOC reportedly had ordered. ing functions. This is an interesting discussion. A hot mess of history, tangled alliances, intellectual confusion, and generally plenty of money to plug the gaps. He ups his surveillance of the FOB which was always in place in order to understand us and our movements and notices that something had been added to the gun trucks. By its nature, the M2 WFF exists in the physical domains and inherently in close proximity to the threat and civilian elements. It means preserving the force which includes personnel and physical assets of the United States as well as the host nation and any military or civilian allies. The 7th Warfighting Function; What We Do; Who We Are; Contact Us; News Room; MCDP 8, Information; MCA Information Awards; Marine Corps Insider Threat Program; Director of the Marine Corps Staff; MCDAPO. ~ IRP Fas. 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.. Sustainment. The joint functions, then, were never intended to be another level of organiza-tion. 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. Neither did 202020 the Maya have a single emperor, though its kings were venerated as godlike, as in the Inca and Aztec cultures. What Is a Mass Grave? All warfighting functions possess scalable capabilities to mass lethal and nonlethal effects. [ii] It is the difference between operating within the physically visible world and the socially non-visible one. we turn to our warfighting philosophy found in MCDP 1, Warfighting. Understanding human domain means understanding the environment one operates in has been a true fact since the beginning of warfare not just since Iraq and AFG. CF brigades, however, DO fight and maneuver, and their battalions also fight and maneuver, therefore the comparison and job experience of the two are not the same. BUT- if the unconscious strategy was to keep the money flow going- then it made perfect sense. The alternative, and the militarys current preferred philosophy, is the technically rational approach. Combat Power= mission command+fires+intelligence+protection+sustainment+movement & maneuver+leadership. Sustainment influences the tempo, duration and intensity of all operations and often determines what can actually be achieved. There was just recently heavy fighting reported initially between the Civilian Defense elements in another area with the local TCO and then the military stepped into between to defend the civilians and it really got into heavy fighting. That is, they encompass so much that they are rendered almost useless. Will any of these concepts help us to (1) separate the native from his native way of life and native way of governance and help us to (2) attach him and make him dependent upon our way of life and governance? 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