IRREGULAR WARFARE (IW)
Abstract
An immediate and critical need exists for small combat unit, Irregular Warfare immersive training solutions. Front line soldiers and marines from conventional, General Purpose Forces suffer 85% of the casualties in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. The U.S. military's dominance in traditional modes of combat has forced its adversaries to master irregular, hybrid, and asymmetric tactics. Moreover, mega-urbanization, large numbers of noncombatants, and the dynamic information environment increase the complexity of the overall IW environment. Meeting these current and future challenges requires better trained, more capable, and tactically enhanced small combat units. These small units and their leaders must be able to make timely, ethical and values based decisions that carry strategic implications. The leaders and staffs that employ these small units must understand their role in supporting these units during simultaneous kinetic and non-kinetic operations in a complex and dynamic human terrain based battlefield. The Department of Defense (DoD) must train and broadly educate these joint units, staffs, and leaders to understand cultures and populations, to thrive in chaotic environments, to recognize and respond creatively to dynamic and demanding situations, and to operate with coalition, interagency, and host nation partners as the norm and not the exception. To accomplish these IW training objectives, the DoD requires training facilities that fully immerse units, leaders, and staffs in live, virtual, and constructive training environments that replicate, as closely as possible, the overall IW environment. These training facilities must allow the unit to utilize the full range of assets that will be available to them in actual missions including their individual equipment, individual and crew-served weapons, command and control systems, navigation systems, and target location/ designation systems. While home station based, these facilities will link joint enablers such as Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance and joint fires from many different locations across the joint force, as well as other home station units that are conducting immersion training simultaneously. This strategy will leverage and integrate the existing and emerging Coalition, Inter-agency, Service and COCOM capabilities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 764_0804767D8Z_6_0400_PB_2011
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