Embedded Strengths Team: Resurrecting, Redesigning, Redeploying Combined Action Platoons

Abstract

In the 21st century, Chaplains can be the newly discovered instruments employed in innovative approaches to 4th-generation warfare. This SRP explores the Combined Action Platoon (CAP) initiative; it assesses past and current relevance and challenges to CAP implementation in stability operations. It will then describe how the proactive use of the strengths revolution serves as a catalyst to a new type of CAP initiative called Embedded Strengths Team (EST). Finally, it proposes an unconventional and possibly controversial implementation of Chaplain leadership into this new program - a program based on 4th- generation warfare methodology that will no longer reside solely in the hands of non-state actors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 12, 2007
Accession Number
ADA467153

Entities

People

  • Salvador Aguilera

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chaplains
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Human Behavior
  • Language
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Stability Operations
  • Training
  • United States
  • Vietnam War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Strategic Security Studies