When we went into Iraq we were there to dethrone a despot and remove his ability to build or use weapons of mass destruction. It teaches people the danger when they fail to observe their physical environment (under their ergonomic desk chair) and drives home the point that real pain (having your pants blown out of the roof of the shit-house) and pain on a TV screen have nothing in common. Grant---I have been following your writings for a long number of years---this one is complex and has about three or four major points depending on interpretation---will respond but need to mull over a response as the points are both intriguing and very valid. D. the Aztecs had no calendar to determine the best time to grow flowers. Finally, how to understand "the oppressed" in terms of our political objective. Writing a handbook to assist in the sublime is almost impossible, how does one tell a promising painter how to be a da Vinci? Or to use the language of the military, your own assumptions. With this understanding of (1) our national goal and objective and (2) the problems and responsibilites related thereto, and with an acknowledgement that the resources we have to accomplish these missions and to deal with these problems and responsibilities have been greatly diminished, now let us consider thoughts on the "human domain" generally and the ideas presented by LTC Martin specifically (re: participatory observation, critical realism, less rather than more troops, etc.) That globalization is adding echelons of wealth concentration doesn't necessarily mean something "new" is happening. Fire's 4. the applies not only to AQ but to most of the worldwide Sunni insurgent groups. The. [xix] The idea that one can tell at a glance what needs to be done and, although usually applied to looking at terrain, some, including Clausewitz, have used it to describe something beyond just terrain. D. The World Trade Organization (WTO). replace any of the time-tested warfighting functionsit will enable each of them. Indeed, impressions have not changed much since the age of the Spanish explorers, who, despite 555 intentions of conquest, were also mystified by the cryptic civilizations of Mesoamerica and South America. Carefully read the passage and choose the best answer for the question that follows. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. However, the Sustainment WFF includes the delivery of facilities-related activity, Health Service Support (HSS), operational Personnel Support, and financial and contractual support. Compliant change is change that is forced onto others, they comply. Montezuma was killed during a short uprising in 152115211521 while instructing the Aztecs to make peace with the Spaniards. And one can use art, I'd argue, to re-imagine one's mission- all the while not straying too far outside of one's constraints. 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. This handout contains the following: I. Recently US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) introduced a new publication: the SOF Operational Design Handbook. I couldn't agree more with this comment- and I think this is one area in which we fail miserably. 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? Well done. Again, the enemy, per se, seems to be missing. Special Operations within the U.S. Military faces a crossroads. 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.. We shouldn't in my opinion be okay with the first time team guys do critical and creative thinking is on their first mission downrange. Another important function . To illustrate how the MIE multiplier might augment the guerrillas effectiveness lets take a senior Haqqani Network (HN) commander who has designs on attacking a position in or near Khost, Paktia AF. Sustainment. It discusses the role of the Marine Corps component commander and staff, their functions, and their relationships to the joint force commander and the other Service components. For the human domain, art is the key. Strategically, that failure to understand the human factor is the root of the abject failure that the Army, Marines, and SOCOM are determined not to repeat.. A. flowers do not grow well where the Aztecs lived. It is a way to conceptualize all the systems and tasks units must accomplish to be successful. [xxv] The Village Stability Program incorporated into Afghanistan, starting out a very promising concept, was quickly seized upon by the bureaucracy and forced into a one-size-fits-all construct that ignored the need for local nuance. How does the textbook's discussion of Anglo-American settlers in the Ohio Valley support or challenge each of the historians' arguments regarding British policy? [x] Of course, that does not leave too much left. He stumbled across a Facebook entry from a soldier somewhere in Iraq who was in front of his gun truck boosting about the Duke---then he Googled more about jamming and then reported back to the team. But destroying the physical tools of war does not eliminate the reasons people fight. I would agree that we (the U.S. Military types) don't know what to do with all this stuff we currently can't measure. "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).. 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. If SW was as important, the amount and quality of education that soldiers get who are involved in SW would be similar in per capita spending as those in SS get for their specialized training and equipping. The CIMIC aspect of the IA WFF is composed of all systems, capabilities and elements tasked to support or otherwise engage with the non-military communities, including dedicated CIMIC units. And, I'd add that this was the conclusion of a large group of international officers who were intent on seeking explanation and meaning- and not seeking blame. Preferably we would rigorously experiment with different constructs and approaches as our norm. Also see Paparone, Chris, COL (ret. 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. That's funny. Nothing terrible here, very human stories of parties and attaches and looking for housing and going to a local bazaar and all the politics you all must deal with when you are in a different country. The HN Staff will have witnessed the effects of direct sunlight, direct moonlight, mountain shadow, heat haze, cold inversion layers, dust, running water, still water, ice, drought, monsoon, crop types, stubble, fallow wild animals, domestic animals, birds-song and insects. Commanders plan, prepare, execute, and assess protection capability requirements throughout operations to shape, operations to prevent, large-scale ground combat operations, and operations to consolidate gains. 1. He has served in Korea, Afghanistan and South America. [xvii] One example of formulaic metaphor found within military doctrine is the formula for combat power. The effect of having a generic UW capability throughout SFin the 60/70s was that when one left VN and returned to other Groups ie the 10th or Det A in Berlin one was right back into UW and FID without missing a beat or having to retrain. Knowingly or not, we in the military are governed largely by a system of systems that theoretically ties the Presidents security strategy to everything the military does, from the way the Army organizes into brigades to the type of rifle infantrymen carry. And. For the purposes of simplification and clarity I will define the human domain, not in terms of its content (the other), but in terms of the missions or environment most closely related to the concept. There are no platoon outposts there. If you have watched the borderland beat site for over the last few years---we in the watching the failing of a major "democratic" country directly on our immediate border with TCOs driven their trade deeper into the major cities using violence much like AQ in Iraq. 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Coupled with a chain of command that exploits their multi-generational familial ties, tribal ties and 30 years of shared camaraderie the HN practice a tactical and operational methodology they call Jihad and we call Mission Command. and are likewise both required to understand it. He graduated from The Citadel, has an MBA from George Mason University, and an MMAS from the School of Advanced Military Studies. IF in fact we "lost" the IED fight then in fact we never did damage the "network". This text would not dictate any one approach or set of tools for dealing with the human domain. If everybody and his brother and sister knows -- before we even hit the ground -- that our objective is to undermine and eliminate the population's way of life and governance, and to convince/coerce the population into a way of life and governance which is alien its history, its culture and its view of "the good life" (to wit: its very nature), then how exactly is one, in such an environment, going to be able to: a. The seven warfighting functions are command and control, fires, force protection, information, intelligence, logistics, and maneuver. So when we look to influence the human domain we are looking to influence the general population in ways simple coercion cannot. Let me expand on this somewhat by providing a broader context: The goal is to transform the lesser and remaining outlier states and societies along modern western lines; this, so that they might better benefit from and better provide for the global economy. The self, the psyche, must be involved somewhere. It always struck me a little odd in a way because it was the first time in our history where anyone literally could come in off a mission and then sit down on a computer and talk with your wife, parents, friends etc. This is the reality that stares us in the face when we start talking about the "human domain.". Force Protection Intro To Classified Material Intel Community Directives Intro To Intelligence This has resulted in curious phenomena like tactical-level units ignoring orders from operational level headquarters to send up metrics of how many Afghan security force members wear their first-aid pouches on the upper left side of their kit as a measure of Afghan military capability (Anonymous RC-South staff officer communication with author in the Fall of 2013). We must continue to plan, synchronize, and deliver sustainment warfighting function capabilities. Strictly Necessary Cookies - Always Active. Thus, "knowing one's enemy" seems to be taking a back seat to building partner trust and building partner capacity during this new period of peace. [xli] For just one example of how this affects SOF: US Army Special Forces (SF) majors are compared to Conventional Force (CF) majors for promotion to lieutenant-colonel as well as battalion command. We came to two conclusions: 1- that the bureaucracy of the national security apparatus had grown so complex that it had taken on a life of its own, and emergent forces were acting without any true conscious effort and influencing things in very unconscious ways. This example was taken straight out of the website "borderland beat" which treats totally the Mexican and Central American transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs)--AND if you think beheadings were a thing of AQI in Iraq---one will see the actual bodies in the web site and if one thought Hezbollah had a corner on social activities in Lebanon think twice when one looks at Mexico---if one thinks that the TCOs do not tangate the US check recent reports out of Tulsa OK. The memoir covers the period from about 1941 to 1973. The Aztecs, noted perhaps most often for their penchant for battle and human sacrifice, composed the second-largest pre-Columbian civilization in central America. The danger to SOF does not lie simply with the publication of the handbook: this is simply a symptom of a larger problem. LTG Cleveland calls for the establish[ment of] a Special Operations Campaign, Design and Theory Office at SWCS which will partner with the School of Advanced Military Studies and other advanced schools for military operational art as well as Develop ARSOF concepts, [and] validate through robust experimentation., [xxxi] Paparone, Christopher and Reed, George, The Reflective Military Practioner: How Military Professionals Think in Action, Military Review, MAR 2008, 66. Next attempt the IED detonated between the vehicles. Additionally, I do believe that sudying the society/culture you will be operating in is important but if you spend to much time on that and neglect the warfighting side you start to get into an area of diminishing returns. [xxix] This has resulted in the doctrine seeming to contradict itself. These advocates recommended the adoption of critical realism, multi-paradigmatic frames and the like. Commanders use thewarfighting functionsto help them exercise command and to help them and their staffs exercise control. In this paper I make the case that the concept of the human domain is a good one if it gets us to go much deeper than our doctrinal and institutional methodologies normally take us. Overthrow a resisting local government that is standing in the way of where the United States wants to go and how it wants to get there or. That Special Operations is just now getting around in my opinion to being in the same boat is a reflection of two occurrences: the 1987 establishment of Special Operations as a 4-star command and the large growth in Special Operations since 9/11. Maneuver 3. That we have segregated some war fighting functions along conventional and special lines is an historical reality, not a necessity. To successfully incorporate informa - tion as a warfighting function, Marine leaders on all levels need to better un-derstand the information domain or how information flows in a metaphysi - cal realm. A warfighting function (WFF) is a group of tasks and systems united by a common purpose that commanders use to accomplish missions and training objectives. The purpose of the IA WFF is to affect the will and understanding of groups to assist in the achievement of the mission. The purpose of WFF is to provide an intellectual organisation for common critical capabilities available to commanders and staffs at all echelons and levels of warfare. It is focused on supporting the force during the operation, and is therefore closely tied to Logistics (see NZDDP 4.0). 6. For them, uncertainty is a threat; its admission a sign of weakness. AND if one does not believe that an insurgency does not learn from past events--just check the latest strategy statement from AQ issued Sept 2013. Thank you for stopping in today and please share this post with others. ~ IRP Fas. I was just going to pull that quote for another comment thread. In this book Dr. Paparone explains how the military thinks institutionally and links it to the technically rational mindset. 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. The distinction you explicitly make seems to detract from your deeper point. b. And I also agree with your point reference CF vs. SOF. 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 systematic theory is highly suspect, as the Soviet centralized system should have taught us. The conduct of The Emerging from a 101010 collection of city-states with no central government, the Maya reached a cultural peak between A.D. 250250250 and 900900900. As part of capacity building, engagement with Host Nation Security Forces (HNSF) may form part of the CIMIC aspect of the IA WFF area of responsibility. I am again going to shy away from your basic argument even though I agree with you. SW forces would be engaged in social influence and, if savvy enough, they would be engaged in internalization efforts through participatory observation (encompassing action, observation, learning, and influencing- influencing both the observed and the observers). Our technical surveillance enables smart weapons which largely depend on digitized enabled surveillance. Destroy the enemys physical ability to fight and they must surrender. If our adversaries had that capability our TTPs in Afghanistan would have to rapidly and drastically change. Secondly, by attacking civilian targets, the terrorists strategy was to influence those within the power base? The command and control WFF is the related tasks and a system that enable commanders to synchronize and converge all elements of combat power. Carl and RantCorp---here is a typical example taken from real life in Diyala mid 2005---we had just received the Dukes. Movement is primarily concerned with positioning forces in an advantageous place and time from which to have an effect to achieve the mission. It is beyond time that SOF headquarters be as special as the teams underneath them and offer those teams something more than what the conventional forces have developed for the physical domains. I dont ever remember reading anything where General Lee thought he could defeat and outright destroy the Army of the Potomac so his chosen course of action was one based on influencing the power base, the northern citizenry correct? [xxi] I would assume Jean Baudrillard, from his Simulacra and Simulation (1981), would have a field day with how we have conducted Afghanistan. To boot, recent history seems to have muddied the waters on the subject. Your email address will not be published. Though weathered or overgrown, the relics stand as permanent markers of the ingenuity and art of the pre-Columbian civilizations. This goes back to your comments concerned SW vs what I call the glorious kick down the door mentality. For example where there is a communal society with central leadership applying concepts that work in a democracy are useless and potentially counterproductive. 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. You cannot believe how many times I tried to explain that to MNF-I in countless HUMINT reports. It accomplishes this through the collective and coordinated use of kinetic and non-kinetic joint fires and effects in support of a manoeuvre plan, employing these means to delay, disrupt, or destroy enemy forces (adapted from RNZA Duties in Action). The identification of the need for this information and subsequently coordinating its collection is therefore a part of the Int WFF. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. 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. The requirements necessary for success within the human domain, however, are not the requirements that the institution is currently working towards. RantCorp---lack of observation skills by the Force is also another problem-especially from our side--there are a number of basic infantry skill sets that have largely disappeared that no one seems to recognize. commanders to balance their command and control duties, Four Tips to Help You Prepare for the Army Warrior Leader Course, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM): 10 Cool Facts, and Army Trial Counselor in a Maneuver Enhancement Brigade: My Experience, Army 18F MOS: Special Forces Operations & Intelligence Sergeant, 7 Great Military Tactics And Strategies That Worked. Those always struck me as SF-light. We must introduce at least our SOF soldiers to the concepts of the critical realist[i] philosophy and to the practice of forming multi-paradigmatic views. Herein, we must be prepared to deal with the vastly increased and very broad and very deep chaos (exs: rebellions, insurgencies, genocide, famine, increased crime, etc., etc., etc.) This is due in no small part to two incompatible philosophies that our institution is attempting to force together. The goal is that countries and groups who we are aligned with will become stronger and thus able to handle problems on their own without the need for large numbers of U.S. troops, which arguably get in the way of long-term progress anyway. To the average North American, the mere mention of Maya, Aztec, or Inca civilization evokes thoughts of great, flat-topped pyramids of mysterious origin, secret cities perched on remote mountaintops, and booby-trapped temples brimming with treasure-hoards of gold. It only has to be a tiny increment for the difference between 10 days and 10,000 days for the odds to stack up very heavily in HNs favor. What I don't like is the idea that as long as it is hard we should not try and simply leave it to others to figure out. The offense cannot sustain itself indefinitely. And yet, since the Political Science world has shifted towards Rational Choice Theory- we too have tried to stay edgy and cool, and likewise we have come up with all kinds of elegant models and metaphors to try to make life seem simple to us- turning abstractions into concrete concepts and teaching everyone the language of those abstractions through doctrine- which helps in communication, but does little for us in terms of critically knowing ourselves. Critical realism can be used to describe current or past situations. The human domain![vi] This conversation happened, supposedly, in the context of a discussion about the Armys Seventh Warfighting Function (WfF),". The key is synchronizing this intelligence with other joint operations. B130876 Warfighting 7 Basic Officer Course . Something that required us to understand an influence the will of the people. Today, we are going to discuss the Army Warfighting Functions. There was a series of great comments on the question of UW recently in Dave Maxwell's SWJ article. 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. He relies on it very heavily when shaping his tactical and operational planning process. This next comment sums it up; I recently read a quote from COL Boyd of Boyd's OODA Loop fame: "The Pentagon has a strategy, and that strategy is maintain the flow of money" (or something to that effect). The Sustainment WFF is composed of all systems, elements and capabilities relating to the provision, movement, sustenance and well-being of personnel, materiel and installations. I think your comment actually reinforces RantCorp's point. 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. I think what throws everything off is that: a. Well I certainly don't have all the answers! In order to be effective when dealing with things like social influence,[xxxii] the requirements are literally something that SOF has been getting further away from being able to do since at least 1987, but especially since 2003. Merton described many of the problems that are endemic to bureaucracies: "trained incapacity" resulting from "overconformity", defending of ones own entrenched interests rather than acting to benefit the organization, resisting change to established routines, emphasizing formality and process over relationships, and trained to ignore context and circumstance. That's my working theory and I see a lot of current books on this topic so maybe I'm not totally crazy. We have, possibly like the rest of America, become specialists capable of great micro efforts, but terrible at macro vision. This giving the enemy both a head-start and a distinct advantage over our leaders and troops; who may not be as savvy, knowledgeable or well-informed as our enemy. So where are the pilots? This that any different than the Sunni Awakening movement--I personally do not think so. The European Union (EU) Despite vicious religious practices, the Aztec demonstrated ingenuity by inventing an innovative farming technique to grow crops among the 30 canals of Tenochtitlan. Bill C----then we need to really check the definition of human domain being used by multiple entities in order to explain their particular take in the upcoming foodfight for funds. The Pushtoon Secessionists fighting the Pak Army across the border in Pakistan are a good fit but a similar approach to Counter UW is IMO a dead loss at best and dangerously ruinous at worst. The 7 Warfighting Functions maneuver fires intelligence logistics force protection command and control information Maneuver is the. We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website . MCDAPO Team; MCDAPO Current References; MCDAPO Studies; Contact Us; MCDAPO 101; Resources; Headquarters and Service Battalion. QUOTE: The Marine Corps defines the fires warfighting function as "Fires harass, suppress, neutralize, or destroy in order to accomplish the targeting objective, which may be to disrupt, delay, limit, persuade, or influence. Administrative movement (generally movement via strategic transport) is included in the Sustainment WFF. 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