Guidelines for Commanders and Staffs: How to Engage With Local Societies During Military Operations

Abstract

These guidelines are the result of the research performed under the umbrella of MNE-6 objective 4.3 "Cross-Cultural Awareness". This work has been focused on exploring best practices when it comes to engaging with local authorities and ordinary people in order to ease the activities conducted by the military Staff most populace-oriented branches (PSYOPS, CIMIC, INFO OPS.) to better achieve mission success. This guidebook aims at helping decision-makers and militaries to take into consideration the key cultural features and elements when interacting with different cultures during military tasks so as to not trigger undesired effects or produce collateral damage that can seriously hinder the overall pursued end-state.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA562034

Entities

People

  • Antonio Avalos
  • Marien Duran

Organizations

  • United States Army Training and Doctrine Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Collateral Damage
  • Dictionaries
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Environment
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Families (Human)
  • Governments
  • Language
  • Local Governments
  • Military Operations
  • National Governments
  • Personality
  • Recognition
  • Societies

Readers

  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design