The Expeditionary Information Warfare Commander: A Composite Warfare Design to Synthesize Navy and Marine Corps Information Competencies
Abstract
This paper proposes implementing a permanently designated Information Warfare Commander (IWC) within the Expeditionary Composite Warfare Command (CWC) design. Background discusses the disparate ways that military services and government agencies conceptualize information in struggle to optimize its application. Historic summary presents the organizational evolution of responsibility to information related capabilities and connects these points to the apparent present lack of formal structure that could facilitate Navy-Marine Corps multi-dimensional, cross-domain, coordination of information operations in contribution to composite expeditionary operations. Next, it presents the Navy and Marine Corps information communities, as they currently operate in parallel, in comparison and contrast to the steps already taken to incorporate permanent IWCs into Carrier Strike Group (CSG) design. The proposed design presents a notional organizational body and addresses DOTMLPF-P considerations. It discusses enduring criticisms and shortfalls observed in the CSG IWC model and additional obstacles to incorporating the IWC concept into the naval expeditionary force organization.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 15, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1177830
Entities
People
- Jessica A Reed
Organizations
- Marine Corps University