Personnel Sourcing for Transition Teams

Abstract

Healing a nation ravaged by counterinsurgency is an extremely complex process. It requires governance, providing essential services, economic development, training and employing host nation forces, combat operations and information operations. The United States' strategy to improve a damaged nation is two pronged: first by creating a positive security environment and then by enabling the return of a legitimate government that can provide law and order and essential services. U.S. military forces create a positive security environment by presence on the ground and by training, mentoring and advising host nation security forces (both civil and military) using transition teams. However, The USMC's current policy of manning transition teams is not conducive to winning the conflict in OEF/OIF because it strips deploying units of Marines in critical billets, places inexperienced or unprepared Marines in positions of influence and fails to meet current Military Defense Strategy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 17, 2008
Accession Number
ADA508052

Entities

People

  • D. E. Saunders

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Combat Operations
  • Deployment
  • Economic Development
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Operations
  • Iraqi-War
  • Lessons Learned
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Advisors
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Security Personnel
  • Training
  • Transitions
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.