Decade of War: Applying Past Lessons to the Counter-ISIS Campaign

Abstract

In 2012, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey called for the U.S. military to learn the lessons from the past decade of operations, resulting in the Decade of War Report which summarized key lessons from U.S. military operations since 2001. The reports findings are relevant to the current Department of Defense (DOD) initiative of crafting and implementing a new approach to countering ISIS in response to the Trump administrations executive order. This paper takes six of the reports lessons-on understanding the environment, rethinking the conventional warfare paradigm, leveraging strategic communications to achieve operational goals, managing transitions, and building effective coalitions-and applies them to the counter-ISIS campaign.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 22, 2017
Accession Number
AD1036737

Entities

People

  • Larry Lewis

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Conventional Warfare
  • Department Of Defense
  • Executives
  • Governments
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Operations
  • Interagency Coordination
  • International Law
  • Law
  • Military Operations
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Strategic Communications
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.