Irregular Warfare Center to Close Oct. 1 by Kevin Lilley, Army Times
After eight years working to educate soldiers on counterinsurgency, one of the Army Irregular Warfare Center’s last actions was similar to its first: Updating the field’s bedrock document.
The Army issued Field Manual 3-24, known simply as “Counterinsurgency,” in late 2006. Then-Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, head of the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, had a hand in creating both the manual and what would become the AIWC…
Multiple agencies will pick up the center’s work, Benton said, likely including the Army Special Operations Center of Excellence and the Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. Only two officers and three enlisted remain with the center, a spokesperson for the Mission Command Center of Excellence said; plans are still in progress for a final division of the AIWC’s responsibilities.