Planning Economic Activities to Support Counterinsurgency Objectives. Volume 1
Abstract
The Deputy Commander, USJFCOM, asked an IDA study team to identify how, when, and where military commanders and their staffs should use their economic-related capabilities and tools in Afghanistan. (Economic-related actions in irregular warfare (IW) are viewed as a form of non-kinetic actions, along with communication actions, diplomatic and political actions, and legal actions.) The results of the task would help joint force commanders and their staffs better leverage the economic-related capabilities in an IW campaign, and better counter the capabilities and economic initiatives of the adversary. The IDA team developed examples of courses of actions for three provinces: Helmand, Khost, and Jowzjan. To improve IW capabilities through economic-related actions, the IDA team recommended the following actions: (1) improve the near-term use of economic-related capabilities; (2) explore the use of economic-related capabilities in a single Afghan region in partnership with a forward-deployed military unit and provide that unit with reach-back information on economic-related capabilities, economic-terrain mapping, and tools for planning economic-related capabilities; and (3) improve longer-term capabilities in IW.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA597035
Entities
People
- Alec Wahlman
- Christopher Atteberry
- Christopher S. Ploszaj
- David I. Graves
- Jack A. Jackson
- James G. Lacey
- James H. Kurtz
- Jessica M. Huckabey
- Joel B. Resnick
- Lauren Burns
Organizations
- Institute for Defense Analyses