New Tactics for a New Enemy
Abstract
Over the last century, American law enforcement has had a successful track record of investigating, arresting, and severely degrading the capabilities of organized crime families. These same techniques should be adopted by the military in the targeting of insurgents and terrorist organizations. The main benefits of using law enforcement tactics, training, and procedures (TTPs) would be more focused intelligence collection techniques; better training of soldiers on what types of tactical questions to ask during raids and at traffic control points; and better preservation of raid sites for exploitation of sensitive documents, materials, and electronics. This transfer of training would have the added benefits of decreasing the likelihood of detaining the wrong individuals, increasing the Iraqi criminal conviction rate, and decreasing the number of individuals captured but later released due to a lack of evidence. The difficulty with this detective-based training would be integrating it into an already tight training schedule while maintaining all the standard competencies and tool training the Army already has in place for this type of mission. To provide this new training, some element of the current curriculum will have to be forfeited. The argument for this forfeiture is that the GWOT and asymmetrical warfare are the most likely situations U.S. forces will face in the next 10-15 years.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA494936
Entities
People
- John C. Decker