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... Gordon England that spells out Irregular Warfare (IW) shortfalls within the Department of Defense. In a May 15 memo to the ...

Blog entry - May 22 2008 - 10:58am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... because it doesn't provide a universal panacea to the IW conundrum but that was never the intention of the article; or because it ... diplomacy and political sectors that need to address these shortfalls, but they are not your problems to solve, and they are distracting ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... depiction of how the price of oil was impacted by minor shortfalls in oil production. NOTE: The shortfall in production caused by ... my background make their living and always have in the IW realm, but we also assumed that GPF would retain focus on the larger issues ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments

... opening round for RA to claim FID." Significant capacity shortfalls led the General Purpose Forces to also develop skills in MTT areas. ... 6. Sixth, the comment that "there is no centralized IW training center" may be accurate, however, also not necessarily ...

Journal Article - Apr 7 2010 - 1:49pm - 52 comments

... what you note, an effort to remediate the IMO terrible shortfalls we have acquired in the last 30 years in all our training and ... answer. Some say "FID + IDAD"; Some say "SFA." Some say "IW." I'm reluctant to put one more new term on the table, lest the legs ...

Blog entry - Sep 26 2010 - 5:57pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... location in Europe, setting up UW training camps, training IW fighters and then leading them on UW missions against NATO forces and ... of continuity and understanding. Again a lot of our shortfalls need to be fixed in house before we ever hope to provide the world ...

Journal Article - Jan 9 2011 - 8:59am - 29 comments

... warfare? Brig Gen O'Donohue does recognize that IW is not new though if IW is defined the same as in the 1940 USMC Small Wars ... than irregulars, so I would be more concerned about shortfalls there. I suspect that we exaggerate I suspect that we ...

Blog entry - Nov 3 2011 - 3:14pm - 17 comments - 0 attachments

... A thorough understanding of Irregular Warfare (IW) and the principles of organizational theory and design will enable the ... We cannot fix the latter but perhaps remediating our own shortfalls could reduce some of the fallout from the former. Anyhoo, we ...

Journal Article - Nov 23 2009 - 8:29am - 19 comments

... support commanders requirements in Irregular Warfare (IW) operation..." Have you ever seen a commander's requirement? I don't know ... adopted the Van Riper plan as a result of intelligence shortfalls. A Gazette article from that time frame echoed that exact sentiment ...

Journal Article - Jun 22 2011 - 7:23am - 17 comments

... defeated and routed from Afghanistan. Any initial shortfalls can be justified by the fact that SOF rapidly responded to the 9/11 ... today. Foremost was our lack of understanding of COIN/UW/IW doctrine, and second was our failure to rapidly and effectively develop, ...

Blog entry - Oct 13 2008 - 3:13pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments