Grafenwoehr Full Spectrum Exercise Tosses COIN by Steven Beardsley, Stars and Stripes. Bluf:
… Known as a full spectrum training environment, the complex, monthlong exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels reshapes a brigade into an expeditionary force and pits it against a conventional force armed with tanks, helicopters and unmanned drones. It’s the first European exercise of its scope in a decade, organizers say…
That scale is set in part by the Army’s full spectrum operations doctrine, updated extensively in 2008. The first update since the June 2001 edition, it was released two years after the Army published its counter-insurgency manual. Much like that doctrine, the update emphasized the importance of stability operations…
If COIN is excluded is it truly “full spectrum” or is this just one phase of future training that will also include COIN and STABOPS?