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. 2013. And as successful as SF efforts may be locally, they appear to make no headway toward achieving the larger goal of strategic influence of major centers of gravity. One example may assist in understanding the phenomenon. The fires warfighting function is the related tasks and systems that provide collective and coordinated use of Army indirect fires, AMD, and joint fires through the targeting process. The 7 Warfighting Functions maneuver fires intelligence logistics force protection command and control information Maneuver is the. The danger lies with ARSOF copying the U.S. Armys use of physical domain approaches when it comes to the human domain. Interesting assessment on what I'm calling asymmetric surveillance approaches and much more. 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. This is a realm consisting more of social facts (as opposed to physical facts such as artillery trajectories and tank speed), influenced more by language and culture, and largely constructed by the inhabitants as to meaning. The State and capital are already overwhelmed. 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. So what essentially we have done is gone from: a. 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. Administrative movement (generally movement via strategic transport) is included in the Sustainment WFF. The first is the more political aspects of military operations. Commanders integrate and synchronize these capabilities with other WFF to accomplish objectives and missions. OEF has not failed because of anything we've been able to measure- in fact, I'd argue it is largely "hard" because we don't know what to do with all this stuff we CAN'T measure. One note on the mission scenario your notional SOF team receives.it is not so much a mission as a policy statement. Special Operations within the U.S. Military faces a crossroads. 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. Those who survived were forced to abandon their customs and live beneath Spanish rule for the next three centuries. Using the vocabulary list for the lesson, supply the correct word to complete the sentence. Entire tribes vanished as smallpox, scarlet fever, and influenza decimated the native population of the Americas. Controlling indirect and direct fires is ultra important. What is then the difference in the use of human terrain teams say from the term human domain recently used by the ACoS? We flip to the Colonel and his Staff and they have received intel that the assault force is assembling at a HN FOB just inside the Pak border. There were some interesting comments posted to Dave Maxwell's article on UW several weeks ago here in SWJ that are worth going back and re-reading. [xxviii] To be fair, the writers of this first iteration of the handbook were given a very short timeframe with which to complete the project. At the operational level and high tactical levels,[xl] however, senior NCOs and field-grade officers are increasingly institutionalized and are thus progressively more intertwined within the bureaucracy in terms of how the organization thinks, plans, communicates, and acts. RantCorp--now you understand the reason why we lost Iraq and AFG. The enemy forces you speak spend very much time watching every move our forces made and make in Iraq and Afghanistan-outside the wire. Bill C---is not human domain really a substitute term for Kilcullens' "conflict ecosystem". The intelligence warfighting function is larger than military intelligence. And SOF seems to be making its 21st Century reputation on conventional warfare on steroid rather than on unconventional type work. And. 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. Every village that does not have the safety and security of the institutions that were formed to do so, can be armed in self-defense of their rights, their property, their lives. This is anathema to what is needed for building an SW force able to operate within the human domain, but alas we are beholden to a requirements process that is set up to facilitate the bureaucracy. This publication. Warfighting Functions: The seven mutually supporting military activities integrated in the conduct of all military operations. 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. The commander and staff leverage the intelligence enterprise, coach and train the intelligence core competencies, implement the operations and intelligence processes, and direct the intelligence effort through the intelligence capabilities. In the past, it was the communists who denied various populations these benefits. Conduct targeting. It is very difficult to do: one must sacrifice ease of communication and planning as well as take on some threat to ones career. They are a tactical tool that often makes us feel good in achieving temporary gains or waiving the flag. b. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) advise/assist, sabotage) are no longer the realm of SOF. Your email address will not be published. Personally, I disagree. 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". It is comparative to threat elements therefore includes actions to reduce the enemys freedom of manoeuvre. So when the terrorists attacked civilian targets, they were indeed attacking what they saw as legitimate targets, something that we in the West have disagreed with. This being the case, and the central problem that we face today, I am not sure how a better understanding of the human domain can help us to overcome this fundamental difficulty. The related tasks and systems that move and employ forces to achieve a position of relative advantage over the enemy and other threats. 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. So as we go into a country in Africa or in the Middle East or the Pacific region, were learning about them. Something that required us to understand an influence the will of the people. b. 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. 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. 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. This largely unconscious effect is to be expected: any large organization experiences it quite naturally. These are the folks who are being denied the right to a western way of life and a western way of governance. This handbook borrowed much of its concepts from the Armys Design Methodology (ADM). Under democratic theory the political power rested with the people. "Social" facts can be analyzed too, just not in the way you might analyze, say, a set of temperature readings. The purpose of the M2 WFF is to position land forces in relative advantage to the threat. 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? 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. I have read and heard many who claim that the Army Warfighting Functions just create more red-tape and are not needed. 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. Protection. "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. Agree with you that a deeper problem (THE problem?) Maya descendants still inhabit the Yucatan, but the technology, religion, and practices of the ancient civilization must now be slowly exhumed and catalogued by archaeologists-a difficult task considering the Maya had no central ruling capital. Outlaw09, Since the purpose of military action is to affect the behavior of human groups in the operational environment toward a defined objective, the Army must improve the doctrinal representation of the operational environment and account for the socio-economic, cognitive, and physical aspects of human activity. B. flower cultivation was indicative of a society with leisure time. But it all needs to be there, you can't skimp on one part of it. If youd like to learn more about this subject, check out the book you see below on Amazon. Russian and Saurists posts after 1978 and ISAF and GoIRA over the past 12 years. 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. [xxix] This has resulted in the doctrine seeming to contradict itself. And understand that the enemy (government or population, as the case may be), will not, as was thought, be waiting with roses. B130876 Warfighting 7 Basic Officer Course . The force learns them, regurgitates them, has faith in them, and many defend them without question. Protection efforts must consider and account for threats and hazards in all directions, at all times, and in all environments. Identifies strength and weaknesses, Encompasses all activities required to sustain (beans, bullets, band aids), measures taken to protect friendly forces, management and integration of info, deliberate integration with warfighting functions. 21 What is the most important warfighting function? 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 type of change is more likely to last and is what we are talking about when we talk about the Human Domain and its related Warfighting Function (WfF): the 7th WfF. It cannot, however, lead to certainty about future outcomes.. B. 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. Regardless of the constructs philosophical issues, why are Special Operations Forces (SOF) pushing for a new Army warfighting function and why is the Army supporting SOF in doing so? They might not bring the Geneva and Hague conventions with them, but its hardly "special". Protection may also encompass the surrounding population and environment. The seven warfighting functions are command and control, fires, force protection, information, intelligence, logistics, and maneuver. 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. Similarly, the personnel and acquisition systems of SW forces would be more flexible and geared towards SWs mission as opposed to being largely beholden to red-tape and bureaucracy (SOCOMs acquisition system for SW forces is arguably just as cumbersome and ineffective as the Conventional Forces). I would suggest even if you studied community dynamics in the Bronx, Marseilles, Cairo, Mogadishu, Khartoum, Jeddah or wherever these people came from it would do little to help you deal with the wayward inhabitant when he reached Afghanistan. Take the LeT fighters in Bombay. 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. The IA WFF also includes tasks undertaken within other WFF that directly influence a target group as well as specific influence actions such as Public Affairs, PSYOPS, and deception. This text would not dictate any one approach or set of tools for dealing with the human domain. [xx] Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure, Free Press, 1968. Carefully read the passage and choose the best answer for the question that follows. Joint functions represent related capabilities and activities placed into basic groups to help commanders synchronize, integrate, and direct operations. [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. 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). Preferably we should take our cues from critical realism and multi-paradigmatic framing and reject the notion that the social realm should be approached using mainly the scientific method and linear logical tools and processes. The opposition in AF are not fit, they are poorly trained and they have clapped out gear. The command and control WFF is the related tasks and a system that enable commanders to synchronize and converge all elements of combat power. In terms of our personnel system, at the tactical level we make up for the lack of flexibility by being able to rely on young, uninstitutionalized NCOs and officers who, because of the way they are normally deployed, we fortunately find it very difficult to micromanage. Risk can be taken in IT platforms, vehicles, C2 systems, and airframes. After all, there are many examples in our own history where military commanders considered the population [or human domain as we call it now?] 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". 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. Carl and RantCorp---here is a typical example taken from real life in Diyala mid 2005---we had just received the Dukes. How to Protect Mass Graves? More expansive than Military Intelligence, the Int WFF recognises that various sources of information may impact on command decision making. The seven warfighting functions are command and control, fires, force protection, information, intelligence, logistics, and maneuver. Knowing one's enemy in and out is a cornerstone of guerrilla warfare or as the Iranians call it microwarfare. 2023 KEA - Knowledge Enabled Army. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Coordination activities involving the civilian community may be considered within the CIMIC aspect of the IA WFF, but general engagement or engagement with the community to exert influence would more properly be considered an IA WFF aspect. Decisions need to be made and executed quickly. 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. 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- It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. 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. Overthrow a local government that is standing in the way of progress (the state and societal transformations we desire). 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. ~ Army U Press. The U.S. military has become more professional, more centrally-managed, more technologically-enhanced, and more regimented since the ramp-up for the Cold War saddled the American people with a relatively large professional force. Any armed group of men funded by anyone can do the ally part. 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. Explorers may not have found the mythical golden city of El Dorado, but they did find three amazing cultures, each with unique characteristics. It is often seen as the opposite of Foreign Internal Defense (FID), an umbrella term encompassing COIN. [x] Of course, that does not leave too much left. [xxx] USASOC, ARSOF 2022. "A warfighting function is a group of tasks and systems united by a common purpose that commanders use to accomplish missions and training objectives. I think to a certain extent things are still not too bad at the team level. As Behavioralism was influenced by Comteon Positivism- it is logical that we are Positivists- that is, we believe if we just gather enough data, the answers to all of life's complex problems will become obvious to us. 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. I was sitting in the 2 shop writing a report one day when we took mortar fire into the FOB---everyone ran to the bunkers and I continued to type. 7 Recent . The danger to SOF does not lie simply with the publication of the handbook: this is simply a symptom of a larger problem. The Combatant Commands place a premium on networks that can integrate the Joint warfighting functions. 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. The other side to this coin is that we have failed to be diligent in our own COMSEC by the very fact we have allowed our warfighters to stay connected with such internet tools as Facebook while operating in theater. Emerging from a 101010 collection of city-states with no central government, the Maya reached a cultural peak between A.D. 250250250 and 900900900. Indeed. 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). And, therefore, the point of our spear came to point in their direction. Social learning-in-action would emphasize the requirement to learn while we are acting, although social entanglement (merging quantum entanglement with social efforts) might be more descriptive of the reality. Manage Consent Preferences. These arent mechanized divisions we are attempting to outflank or terrorists we are killing in the human domain, these are very contextual-dependent groups of people whose values we are attempting to appreciate and either influence or employ to some effect. In addition, they are more likely to remain fixated on the hyper-tactical level of operations. Therefore, to win by democratize the population we had to understand how to influence the masses: how to work within the human domain. Maya, like the Aztecs and Inca, also practiced human sacrifice. The use of "human domain" is really a simple attempt to cover up the abject failure of "understanding the environment" before they deployed. [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. 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. The Fires WFF includes the indirect fire capabilities organic to the force, such as mortars and artillery. What could be more logical, I think, than looking at human emotion and motivations, as tricky as it is to understand such things, perhaps even impossible and too mysterious? 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. Sustainment influences the tempo, duration and intensity of all operations and often determines what can actually be achieved. Just how many deploying BCT personnel fully understood the fighting tactics being used by the various Sunni, Shia, and AQI personnel ---did the Army via PME every have classes on this topic? The system is duplicatable and is used from the smallest of units up to large battalions and brigades. And, thereby. A warfighting function is a group of tasks and systems (people, organizations, information, and processes) united by a common purpose that commanders use to accomplish missions and training objectives. 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. WFF are the physical means that tactical commanders use to execute operations and accomplish missions assigned by a superior commander. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. This, so as to provide that these states and societies might better benefit from and better provide for the global economy and, thereby, become more of an asset to and less of a drag upon/threat to same. Our response, by invading two countries and then seeking to replace their forms of government with a model based on our own, could actually be seen as counterproductive because it played into the hands of the terrorists strategy to expose the West as an imperial crusader? This human domain/participatory observation concept looks like it is to be accomplished in times of peace (today and the immediate future?) The state and societal transformations we desire ) skimp on one part of it a premium on networks can... 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