The second is related to the first. 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. The open-ended nature of part two however, puts you in a big 'ol pickle. Since instituting the Army Warfighting Functions, the U.S. military has worked in better partnership on joint military operations. It borders on a religion and has been rejected by most disciplines (http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/positvsm.php). What is the Movement and Maneuver warfighting function? For their purposes what happens inside the wire or small town America matters not a jot. Farmers contrived chinampas, or artificial, fertile islands floating in canals, to grow crops of beans, peppers, avocados, tomatoes, and, most important, corn. If, as is posited by many military leaders and commentators, the human domain is a different domain than the Army has focused on in the past (the other domains being more physical: land, sea, air and cyber), then it would seem to follow that the tools and philosophy we use might not be the most effective when acting in another, arguably very different, domain. Command Deck . 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. - See more at: http://www.aspeninstitute.org/node/12081#sthash.YjMssWdV.dpuf. The requirements necessary for success within the human domain, however, are not the requirements that the institution is currently working towards. [viii] My pick would be The Sublime, but, since that might not have enough of a military sound to it, would offer social action instead in order to emphasize the social aspect as well as the requirement for action. As LTG Sacolick and BG Grisgsby wrote in the June 2012 issue of Army Magazine: The concept of the human domain is the cognitive foundation of the 7th warfighting functions lethal and nonlethal capabilities to assess, shape, deter and influence foreign security environments.[ix]. One organizations human domain is not how the ACoS uses it. [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. 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. We dont take a lot of guys to do that and its pretty cost-effective." The seven warfighting functions are command and control, fires, force protection, information, intelligence, logistics, and maneuver. [xxvi] The tactical level (young NCOs and officers) seems in my experience to have largely remained mission-focused and results oriented. 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. Knowing one's enemy in and out is a cornerstone of guerrilla warfare or as the Iranians call it microwarfare. This is good to know information for any commander or staff officer. Read More On a personal note, I remember when I was in Iraq in 2003, 2004/05, all the internet cafes on the FOBs that allowed our troops lots of free time when they were back inside the wire to communicate with family, friends etc. The self, the psyche, must be involved somewhere. Atahualpa revealed the location of the treasure to Pizarro, and Pizarro promptly executed the ruler and seized control of Cuzco, the Inca capital. The Mexican Constitution itself, in Article 10, makes it very clear. Many times good intentions morph into concepts that are meant to communicate vision, but instead drive questionable acquisition and funding strategies. AND by the way such in house on post training does not cost an arm and a leg to conduct. We have made some fundamental errors trying to do too much and depending on others to provide the reasoning for our actions. He was around twenty, Latino and born and bred in the Bronx. We went to war in Iraq for far less reasons---. 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. Inca architecture still dots the Andean mountains and highlands as the timeless endeavors of a lost people. "Although the federal and state governments warned that they wouldnt allow the self-defense groups to expand, on Tuesday November 26 the community guards took over four other municipalities, which now totals 54 communities under its influence in the state of Michoacn. In the dynamic environment of LSCO, self-reliance and aggressive action are key. B. 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. These movements may be partial or complete. Today, in modern times, characterized by a maximum concentration of mega-monopolies represented by some 500 corporations, the political class, regardless of its color or ideology, now plays at capital's side. A warfighting culture is exactly that, it's a culture. [ix] Sacolick, Bennet S. & Grigsby, Wayne W, Jr., Special Operations/Conventional Forces Interdependence: A Critical Role in Prevent, Shape, Win, Army Magazine, JUN 2012, 39-40. Decisions need to be made and executed quickly. This positivist[xviii] philosophy would be bad if we simply believed it consciously. One could argue that General Lee based his operations in the North during the Civil War as a way to influence the Northern population to put pressure on President Lincoln and the US government to end the war; did he not? Ancient pyramids inscribed with weathered glyphs and characters from the most advanced ancient alphabet in the western hemisphere now sit abandoned, obscured by centuries of jungle growth. It is akin to saying "go be an ally to X against Z, but make sure X isn't the only power/influence game in town when you leave". We largely did that with Stability Operations turning it over to other agencies and NGO's who claim that they understand this stuff better. The Maya existed in a network of city-states, with each ruling its immediate territory. Your email address will not be published. (See below). Human populations, however, are characterized by different viewpoints and limiting oneself to only one view of the world can be disastrous if trying to make sense of things and initiate a desired effect. So today we, as a nation, are facing an opponent who has recognized our power base and is determined to defeat it in such a way as to have a favorable outcome for their end state. Complete discussions by all ranks and ages---and we ran MDMP even in the 60s but it was creative and free thinking for all until the team was comfortable with the solution. It is keeping forces supplied with, Thesustainment warfighting function is the related tasks and systems that provide support and services to ensure freedom of action, extend operational reach, and prolong endurance. Joint Staff Warfighting Capability Analyst. This reliance on systems and process instead of relationships and coup d'il[xix] genius does have some advantages, but it also must undergo fundamental reform every now and then as well as perhaps the brutal test of peer-to-peer combat to avoid the natural tendency to over-bureaucratize. and ask: a. 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. That is, they encompass so much that they are rendered almost useless. It also includes the non-physical aspects of the force such as information and reputation. Unfortunately, most people in the military are unaware of their own philosophy- or, at the least, the institutional philosophy that their doctrine, planning constructs, and systems and processes are founded upon. It is unlikely they have ever viewed the target with their M1Es and probably never will. It does this through the three sub-functions of movement, manoeuvre and mobility. Thus, the tone is one of preparations and preemption -- not participation in ongoing battles and conflicts. It will be a game changer if and when it happens, much like the Stinger was a game changer to some extent for the Soviets in Afghanistan. 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. This function provides Army leadership the means to use a targeting process in relation to indirect fires, missile defense, and joint fires in a way that keeps United States troops safe while delivering fires in support of offensive or defensive operations. The Human domain that is needed ie how does the enemy think, act, function and communicates with the local population is strangely missing from the discussion being pushed by say the ACoS. Our technical surveillance enables smart weapons which largely depend on digitized enabled surveillance. I made a distinction for a few reasons: I am in the SOF community and am hoping to influence the SOF community as we begin an effort to more closely tie in with CF. Pizarro was eventually killed by his own people, but the Inca Empire was forever lost. That we attempt to measure things is but one example of a greater issue: most, if not all, of our constructs remain uncritically accepted on faith by the vast majority of our force. You followed "your" American military pattern as you always had, without realizing it was your pattern. 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? One example may assist in understanding the phenomenon. 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. The Small Wars Journal is published by Small Wars Foundation - a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. I think as well that the difference between the 60s and now is the length of rotations---we had a year to gain experience---AND the replacement process was individual replacements not team replacements--this allowed a sizeable amount of institutional knowledge to remain inside the team all the time---now whole teams come and go thus the institutional knowledge disappears if not passed on extremely well during RIP/TOA. prior to embarking upon major military operations. No doubt there are many good reasons to study the local culture but it will teach you nothing about how to counter your average Taliban fighter. The human domain![vi] This conversation happened, supposedly, in the context of a discussion about the Armys Seventh Warfighting Function (WfF),". For the most part we have tactical-level teams who can do this now. The Sublime: The Paradox of the 7th Warfighting Function, (Or why SOF cannot eat our function and have it too). This is most likely well and good when SOF is engaged in doing the so-called surgical strike missions of which our nation (and our government to a large extent- to include USSOCOM) is enamored with as of late. Your writings are great to read especially coming from the lonely voice on SWJ that once wrote about the need to shift to VSO. The Fires WFF includes the indirect fire capabilities organic to the force, such as mortars and artillery. Table. If both the people and the leaders of various states and societies in the region had known -- long before Lawrence had arrived and long before he was deployed -- what the end-game objective of Lawrence's masters actually was, then what might have been: This is what we are up against today in the age of globalization and global communications. Those of us from the old UW days call it simply the guerrilla Darwinian principle of survival in order to fight another day or what today is called simply "staying power". This next comment sums it up; The alternative, and the militarys current preferred philosophy, is the technically rational approach. Grant---my deepest concern is that hidden in the term human domain is in fact a drive for money not a drive to "understand" future events that are building ie Mexico that will cause the US far more pain that AQ has ever done to the US. That is, unconventional tactics (e.g. [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. HERE is the issue that was recently discussed with a Robert Bunker over on the SWJ El Centro site. The use of "human domain" is really a simple attempt to cover up the abject failure of "understanding the environment" before they deployed. Controlling indirect and direct fires is ultra important. Herein, would I be wrong to suggest that: The goal re: the human domain generally and LTC Martin's participatory observation specifically is to first achieve and then maintain excellent relationships with the local people; this, so that we might be able to establish and field indigenous forces to: a. MCDAPO Team; MCDAPO Current References; MCDAPO Studies; Contact Us; MCDAPO 101; Resources; Headquarters and Service Battalion. [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. To this end I don't necessarily understand the distinction you make between CF and SOF. Indeed. Writing a handbook to assist in the sublime is almost impossible, how does one tell a promising painter how to be a da Vinci? Art isnt something one does while coloring within the lines and SOF shouldnt be looking for a methodology to assist us with it. Special Warfare (SW), on the other hand, encompasses those units that are capable of long-term duration operations in denied areas to train indigenous forces. This that any different than the Sunni Awakening movement--I personally do not think so. NATURE OF PLANNING o Planning as Command and Control o The Functions of Planning and Plans o Uncertainty and Time: Planning for an Unknowable Future What are the 7 warfighting functions? Why Protect Mass Graves? we turn to our warfighting philosophy found in MCDP 1, Warfighting. The protection warfighting function is the related tasks and systems that preserve the force so the commander can apply maximum combat power to accomplish the mission (ADP 3-0). [x] U.S. Army, TRADOC Pamphlet 525-3-0, The U.S. Army Capstone Concept, 19 DEC 2012, 15-16. Current doctrine does not adequately address the moral, cognitive, social, and physical aspects of human populations in conflict. 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. 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. 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. 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.. 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. Democracy is a bottom-up political ideology. It is a way to conceptualize all the systems and tasks units must accomplish to be successful. that are part and parcel to these such state and societal breakdown and rebuilding initiatives? 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. 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. The Staff may have been there a week but no more than a year. I am so tired of the on going six year debate about the "surge" being successful or what used to be called "human terrain system" and now "human domain". 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. 1. western-style nation building. Montezuma was killed during a short uprising in 152115211521 while instructing the Aztecs to make peace with the Spaniards. If any kind of mission was conducive to a technically rational approach, it would be surgical strike missions.[xxxvii]. Were learning what their culture is so next time we come back in, they understand who we are, and we understand who they are. To add to those types of missions I would include any military operation in which either the objectives are very unclear and abstract or the operation is structured in such a way as to have a high likelihood of being unbounded in scope and time. Another important function . For those that do not believe it is possible to have a drug driven insurgency vs the more common Islamist insurgencies we have been seeing for the last ten years-----Mexico is the proof of concept and it is spreading rapidly into the US. A central precept of military doctrine is the recognition that uncertainty is a fundamental characteristic of military operations . Special Operations within the U.S. Military faces a crossroads. And all this still ignores the fact that none of this has anything to do with the general idea that the officers leading these organizations, conventional or otherwise, have to be educated. Please leave your comments and input in the comment section below. Doctrine applied to the physical domains- made up of explicit knowledge- makes sense in some areas. 2. for an hour or two almost like you were back in a hotel in the states. 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. As one would expect, the challenge that one faces in these such endeavors are states and societies being, in the interim period, in a significant state of turmoil, as they attempt to work their way through these difficult transitions. Other reasons include the drawdown in manpower and money as well as the way the military institution uses concepts to try to align disparate and bureaucratic organizations towards a common goal.[xv]. The intelligence warfighting function is the related tasks and systems that facilitate understanding the enemy, terrain, and civil considerations (ADRP 3-0). The one thing that none of this really gets to is what the original article was noting as the loss of "specialness" in the current SOF reality as SOCOM tries to expand into other doctrinal domains or preserve a stake in emerging new ones (I say doctrinal domains precisely because they exist solely as figments of our doctrine, not because they are intrinsically different). The Armys warfighting functions link directly to the joint functions. Special Operations Forces (SOF) have a problem: in order to be more effective in the human domain we have to paradoxically dump the concept. And I also agree with your point reference CF vs. SOF. Multi-framing would be so ingrained as to be almost unconscious: a result of intimate familiarity with how humans make sense of their world through socially-constructed metaphors. Since the "old" individual SF soldier as well founded in UW it was easy to shift between the various Projects, Mike Forces,and A Teams and one did not loss a single minute---AND one did not "feel" that one was being degraded if one shifted from say SR back to a CIDG team or to a Mike Force. 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. This Warfighting Function is the process of deploying troops to operational areas as well as maneuvering troops, equipment and arms to gain advantage over the enemy. In other words, it's special tactics in a very conventional, multi-party, though not industrial scale, war. 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. ~ IRP Fas. machines to improve warfighting capability across the spectrum of military operations. 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