movement of forces for the purpose of gaining an advantage over the enemy in order to accomplish our objectives. Ganjgal troops that do not get their "technical rationality" (a term coined first in 1941 when the technical was a fraction of what it is today) get pummeled. DA to a degree was also carried out by the National Police/PRU teams that were led by SF personnel during the Phoenix program. 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. Your comments gets to a larger point in my opinion- what is it, exactly, that our DoD strives for? What keeps them in the fight is they are observant and patient and both of those come free. Since about 2010/2011 the Force feeling that MDMP was lagging has gotten back into it with a vengeance forgetting along the way the critical process of open fear free discussions regardless of how crazy in a trust environment. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Movement is necessary to disperse and displace the force as a whole or in part when maneuvering. Informational Brief Instructions (NOTE: This is a . Carefully read the passage and choose the best answer for the question that follows. Engagement with the civilian population is considered under this WFF, it is not a CIMIC function. 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. western-style nation building. Most of the current inhabitants have only known ruin and violence and thus are understandably incapable of informing themselves as to what they want, let alone articulate such an abstract sentiment to a foreign infidel HT team. The danger to SOF does not lie simply with the publication of the handbook: this is simply a symptom of a larger problem. The guerrillas M1E is the one piece of equipment that is just as sophisticated and capable as our own. The use of "human domain" is really a simple attempt to cover up the abject failure of "understanding the environment" before they deployed. Under democratic theory the political power rested with the people. A hot mess of history, tangled alliances, intellectual confusion, and generally plenty of money to plug the gaps. "Yet no matter how much we may focus on the diversity of opinions, customs, attitudes and interests within each community, in the end it is not the diversity that defines the conflict but the conflict that defines social attitudes that are widely shared.". Maya, like the Aztecs and Inca, also practiced human sacrifice. We have made some fundamental errors trying to do too much and depending on others to provide the reasoning for our actions. 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. Thus, we faced a problem: design pointed to our philosophy as being the problem, but we were wedded to our philosophy. 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). Manoeuvre elements may then exploit the advantage gained through that terrain action to destroy the threat in close combat. [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 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. 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. The precise, intricate stonemasonry of Inca pyramids, fortresses, and walls commands the respect of even modern masons. Our culture, however (largely influenced by the same hierarchy the early advocates found fault with), refused to entertain the notion that a technically rational approach is the wrong one for complexity. The Mission Command function allows commanders to balance their command and control duties while integrating the other Warfighting Functions. The second is related to the first. When I was able to get a BCT to change their behavior every single day ---then we started getting a changed battlefield as we were forcing the insurgent to delay or stop planned attacks until they figured out why we suddenly changed---plain old fashioned UW that has not changed much in the last 100 years. 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. B. flower cultivation was indicative of a society with leisure time. The Maya, who developed an astrological calendar that allowed them to grow crops in poor soil, were originally thought to be a peaceful people, but archaeologists have since determined that intertribal warfare brought about their decline. Wanat troops depending only on ground sensors and deprived of overhead surveillance the final night get slaughtered on OP Topside. We dont take a lot of guys to do that and its pretty cost-effective." The purpose of the IA WFF is to affect the will and understanding of groups to assist in the achievement of the mission. Taken from the www.borderlandbeat.com from today. The goal is not more money, more missions, or more personnel. For the . I couldn't agree more with this comment- and I think this is one area in which we fail miserably. What does it mean to have a warfighting culture? 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. 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.". As in Michoacn, the human, urban and rural communities are realizing that existing institutions, overwhelmed by all kinds of problems, are non-functional and that organized citizens must take in their hand the management of resources, key decisions, justice, food production, education, prevention and so on. The Chief of Staff of the Army, General Odierno, allegedly said recently, That is what I was missing in Iraq! What doesnt influence human behavior- even if one caveats it with to the extent that success of a campaign depends on it? RantCorp--just how many hours of any given day did either the AQI, the Sunni IAI or the Shia Iraqi Hezbollah spend just simply watching every move a BCT or Marine Regt made in Iraq---kind of like a pattern of life targeting process just in reverse and just how much times does the HiG or the Taliban spend watching our every move in AFG-----hours, days, weeks? I think your comment actually reinforces RantCorp's point. 21 What is the most important warfighting function? Obviously I would give the M1E multiplier a greater weight than most but I dare suggest that seeing, smelling, hearing and even touching, talking and drinking tea with personnel within the target perimeter will boost your chances each and every day. I do think that we are currently measuring the wrong things largely becuase we have been depending on others to dictate what is important rather than doing serious reseach on our own. 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. In other words, the mission has only one solution: make local/paramilitary forces more lethal and reform local governance to distribute the political and economic power so that X does not consolidate power in the resulting imbalance that our support would createi.e. 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. Because the underlying social rules and mechanisms are created by humans, they are constantly evolving over time and geography. All warfighting functions possess scalable capabilities to mass lethal and nonlethal effects. 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. 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. The opposition in AF are not fit, they are poorly trained and they have clapped out gear. Did those deploying understand "swarming" as practiced historically and used in Iraq and AFG? The Problem: Assuming a Technically Rational Approach within the Human Domain. [xxix] This has resulted in the doctrine seeming to contradict itself. For example where there is a communal society with central leadership applying concepts that work in a democracy are useless and potentially counterproductive. The

or to paraphrase an Old Prussian, everything in the human domain is simple, but in the human domain even the simplest thing is complex.

. 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. 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. Reading your comments combined with RantCorp and Carl I believe in many ways you all are saying the same thing but maybe at a different level. Like the Aztecs, the Inca practiced human sacrifice and lacked a written language; however, the Inca made up for language shortcomings with advanced architecture and a complex government. Protection efforts must consider and account for threats and hazards in all directions, at all times, and in all environments. The seven warfighting functions are command and control, fires, force protection, information, intelligence, logistics, and maneuver. Effective maneuver requires close coordination with fires. Bill C---is not human domain really a substitute term for Kilcullens' "conflict ecosystem". After all, there are many examples in our own history where military commanders considered the population [or human domain as we call it now?] All warfighting functions possess scalable capabilities to mass lethal and nonlethal effects. 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. 1. Thank you for stopping in today and please share this post with others. This likewise helping to explain, for example, why artestry, innovation, etc. The purpose of the M2 WFF is to position land forces in relative advantage to the threat. Human domains, or narratives, or strategic contexts, or ecosystems, or understanding situations, must, of necessity, begin with the self. If one thinks about it, the 7th WfF and the human domain, defined as the totality of the physical, cultural and social environments that influence human behavior to the extent that success of any military operation or campaign depends on the application of unique capabilities that are designed to fight and win population-centric conflicts, [xi] border on tautologies. Our technical surveillance enables smart weapons which largely depend on digitized enabled surveillance. "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.. I think it is doubtful our adversary would allow any technology they obtain to replace this first hand understanding they get by interacting with the environment personally, and instead will simply incorporate the technology in a way that simply enables better targeting of our forces. The mission became one of democratization. Not a single CF BCT going through the NTC or where in Iraq fully "understood" how the enemy thought, acted, eat, slept, communicated with themselves and outside related groups AND the local population---much in the concept of Kilcullen's "ecosystem". Well I certainly don't have all the answers! 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 Maya existed in a network of city-states, with each ruling its immediate territory. C. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Below is a reading passage followed by several multiple-choice question. I believe the system works but I would like to hear your opinion. What I find interesting about this revelation is that looking back it becomes almost tragic that we have completely ignored the ability to do or allow our own warfighters to have free run of using open sourced reconnaissance while our enemies have not neglected this and in fact have used it to great success. Great points, as always Bill. 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. we turn to our warfighting philosophy found in MCDP 1, Warfighting. 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? That is, they encompass so much that they are rendered almost useless. There was a series of great comments on the question of UW recently in Dave Maxwell's SWJ article. Standardization serves a purpose in a large organization but it is stifling in small groups. All systems used to coordinate the delivery of these effects are included in the Fires WFF, and are therefore inherently linked to the Targeting and ISTAR IPA discussed later. Domains are simply constructs for understanding a situation. Eventually they actually do get attacked and the outcome is likely less than pretty without those external air attack and fires technical resources that some describe as micromanagement while others under fire appreciate as essential and lifesaving. Let the Rangers have the gadgets and the direct action stuff. When 9-11 happened and you moved quickly into Afghanistan, this mood, this background, this context, these connections, this forgotten yet still present military institutional emotional history, alive even if buried deep within, surfaced only at the time of the OBL raid. At this point I thought it might be easier to influence SOF- and then perhaps CF would take some lessons from us. But, I would submit ones level- if seeing things that way helps- should be based on the context as opposed to a one-size-fits-all approach. It is what makes bringing a cookie-cutter approach to COIN and UW to be such a terrible idea, and yet our bureaucracy forces us into these approaches at the operational and higher levels. It is ironic that the Aztecs grew flowers because. Read More For all the efforts at "understanding the culture" of the environments we are working it failed and I mean totally failed because we did not "understand the culture of the enemy". 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. They KNOW what our political objective is and, therefore, they KNOW who is their friend and their enemy and they KNOW what kind of war they are embarked upon. D. The World Trade Organization (WTO). Indeed, in any stability op or war scenario beyond covert support/sabotage of an indigenous government it is the CF that will lead the main effort and take the majority of the blame for screwing it up (rightfully so). At the operational level we are sorely handicapped. And no one sees the need for UW as the core ability of SF? 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. Virtually everyone knows what our end-game objective is. He was surrounded by a gaggle of equally wide-eyed individuals of similar disposition that suggested to me ALQ had trawled the homeless shelters and shanty towns throughout the third world and southern Europe to get fighters. What are the command and control warfighting function tasks? To many, Operational Design has come to represent what is fundamentally wrong with recent U.S. Army concepts. I submit that art has a place in war, although many of us military types are a little uncomfortable about the word. [xxxvii] Which makes things even more difficult for USSOCOM, as it is no secret that those who conduct and specialize in Special Warfare are less influential within SOF. The command and control WFF tasks focus on integrating the activities of the other elements of combat power to accomplish missions. 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.. Protection includes the physical aspects of force personnel (combatants and non-combatants), equipment, and infrastructure. The bureaucracy loves its metrics. Your writings are great to read especially coming from the lonely voice on SWJ that once wrote about the need to shift to VSO. 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. Aztecs, Inca, and Maya who escaped the iron swords and gunpowder of the Europeans instead suffered the old world diseases that accompanied the explorers. Another important function . They could learn nothing at all about what the people in a platoon outpost are likely to do by looking at small town America. I guess there really is nothing new under the sun. A. flowers do not grow well where the Aztecs lived. Decisions need to be made and executed quickly. 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. Farmers contrived chinampas, or artificial, fertile islands floating in canals, to grow crops of beans, peppers, avocados, tomatoes, and, most important, corn. Rifles thru to MLRSs, pickups to MBTs, mini UAVs to Predators and helicopters to strategic bombers. 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. Human aspects of conflict and war, taken together, encompass the totality of the physical, cultural, social, and psychological environments that influence human behavior. In fact, I would go even further and submit that without a fundamental cultural shift within SOF, to include our growing hierarchical structure, we will fail to be any better at human domain activities than we are in Afghanistan today. I suppose we are saying the same thing, all of us, but talking past one another at times. [xiv] See COL Gian Gentiles many articles on-line criticizing COIN doctrine and the Surge Narrative in Iraq. And what I have been saying for years around here, using "South Asia" as one intellectual "foil", is that YOU (meaning the US military and agencies with which it works) are a part of the human domain and you cannot divorce yourselves from any of it. Sustainment determines the depth and duration of Army operations. Maybe I'm just becoming cynical in my old age, but it bothers me to no end that so many great people and huge amounts national capital have been expended in basically accomplishing what? And it does in fact represent a number of UW deployments by ODAs in th 60/70s. This requires that we facilitate (1) the unhinging of these states and societies from their current and often age-old way of life and way of governance and (2) the attachment of these countries and populations to ways of life and ways of governance which are more similiar to our own. If two things dont alert us to the possibility that there could be something fundamentally wrong, then possibly nothing will. Inca architecture still dots the Andean mountains and highlands as the timeless endeavors of a lost people. But, if that statement mirrors the missions SOF receives, then there needs to be a deeper and more meaningful meaning-of-life-come-to-Jesus type conversation that needs to be had in Tampa about what UW/SW is as a tool and how policy shapes its implementation. 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. 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. 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. Overthrow a local government that is standing in the way of progress (the state and societal transformations we desire). Knowing the enemy as well as one's self and knowing those who one works with as been always the core of SF UW training---my point has always been while we tend to most of the time get the indigenous side right---it takes us awhile but we tend to get there in the end ---we fail though completely at understanding the enemy. Indeed, advise/assist can be done by conventional forces. In this book Dr. Paparone explains how the military thinks institutionally and links it to the technically rational mindset. That we have segregated some war fighting functions along conventional and special lines is an historical reality, not a necessity. Maya civilization, often considered to be the most exalted and mysterious of the three, inhabited the Yucatan Peninsula of Eastern Mexico as long ago as 2,6002,6002,600 B.C. Kilcullen strangely got it right in his time in Iraq, but Gen. P misused it to establish the he won the surge comments and NOW Kilcullen is coming back to it in his latest book about seven years to late. Observation/surveillance is the only tool that allows for any UW cell to survive. It must be something to do with the sort of personality attracted to these subjects, I imagine. 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? There are three types of social change or influence according to some: compliance, identification, and internalization (Kelman HC, Compliance, Identification, and Internalization: Three processes of attitude change, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1958, 51-60.). I did not want to recall how many negative comments were made by countless officers about how stupid the insurgents were when in fact they are still in the fight and we are long gone from Iraq. Russian and Saurists posts after 1978 and ISAF and GoIRA over the past 12 years. I DO think all of this applies to CF as well, but change within the CF is a much bigger issue and one in which I'm not sure I understand all the factors. So while our enemy understands us, I believe that we have a hard time understanding them insofar as we dont know how to defeat them. It is very difficult to do: one must sacrifice ease of communication and planning as well as take on some threat to ones career. Millions of tourists now visit Mexico and Peru to see the remnants of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. Conduct targeting. Regardless, they are a formulaic-like approach linked linearly to the Armys concept of how it intends to fight and/or influence and win the nations wars or keep wars from happening. Grant---I think part of the current issue inside SF is a distinct lack of UW experience passed on from the 60/70s to the Groups having to just survive in order to rebuild. In addition, they are more likely to remain fixated on the hyper-tactical level of operations. 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. 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