Give Me a Hand... As We Dance With the Dragon: Fine Tuning the Asia-Pacific Hands Concept

Abstract

Over the last thirteen years of conflict, Operation ENDURING FREEDOM has forced the U.S. to operate in a culturally diverse and challenging environment. Unfortunately, those experiences demonstrated that our operators and strategic decision makers were poorly equipped to understand and operate effectively within foreign cultures and societies. In turn, their struggle solidified the importance of cross-cultural and regional competence within the profession of arms, and Language, Regional Expertise, and Culture (LREC) has now become a top priority for our military.1

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1015813

Entities

People

  • Justin T. Dahman

Organizations

  • Air University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Families (Human)
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Health Services
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Students
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Pacific Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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