Back to the future: Small wars as a core competency for today's security environment

Article Abstract:

The Marine Corps needs to reexamine its core competencies in the existing security environment that is likely to give rise to irregular challenges and from the extensive combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, in order to adapt and innovate and maintain its greatest utility to the US. Operations Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Iraqi Freedom (OIF) have highlighted the core competencies of the Marine Corps, but formally developing and maintaining a capability and capacity for excellence in small wars or intervention activities as an additional core competency is essential.

Foreign operations, Afghanistan, Evaluation, Naval strategy

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Leaving the tubes at home

Article Abstract:

Two Marine officers describes the way in which the 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines (3/11) became a part of the 1st Marine Division (1st MarDiv) and an artillery battalion prepared for provisional military police (MP) duties in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM II (ORF II). The critical point is to assess the personal needs for a unique mission and the artillery battalion deploying as an MP battalion, will cease to be viewed as nonstandard but rather as another mission that a general-purpose force can easily accommodate.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Navies, Naval art and science, Naval warfare, Navy-yards and naval stations, Naval bases, Naval officers

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Transitioning from conventional combat

Article Abstract:

The Iraqi experience has forced the US Marines and Army ground forces to transit from conventional combat to a totally new type of operation, the civil-military operations (CMO), and be prepared for the unexpected. The small unit leaders and their units are the key enablers for most of the work in stability and counterinsurgency operations and hence the Marines and Army should seek to institutionalize the small unit leadership excellence that was observed from the leaders in Iraq and elsewhere.

International Affairs, Dept of the Army, Military Exercises & Maneuvers, Military Action, Military aspects, United States. Army, Military operations, Military maneuvers

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