Language, Cultural, and Education Barriers in the Global War on Terrorism

Abstract

The Global War on Terrorism has specific challenges that persist to impede our progress in defeating terrorism. The large challenges we face are language, cultural, and education barriers among United States joint forces, and coalition forces. The inability to effectively communicate on the battlefield has not only hampered our success, but cost many friendly force lives. It is imperative that a universal method of communicating be established to defeat an enemy that is out numbered and out resourced, but persists to exist and cause both terror and death.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 13, 2007
Accession Number
AD1112526

Entities

People

  • Martin J. Cervantez

Organizations

  • United States Army Sergeants Major Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan
  • Battlefields
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Congress
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Foreign Languages
  • Fratricide
  • Friendly Fire
  • Governments
  • Iraqi-War
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Language
  • Military Organizations
  • Students
  • Terrorism
  • Training
  • United States
  • War
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Strategic Security Studies