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| Who was the 4 Star General who was one of many driving forces to revive COIN in the Army? |
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| What is the Army FM for COIN |
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| What is the main effort of counter insurgency? |
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| Gaining the populations' support of host nation government and to no longer support insurgents's ideology or motives |
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| Which is more important to COIN; firepower or building schools? Why? |
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| Building Schools. Vietnam used firepower without prevailing |
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| What COIN acronym is used to assess and improve your local government? |
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| SWEAT-MSO: sewer, water, electricity, academics, trash, medical, security/safety, and other considerations |
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| Why is the COIN acronym SWEAT-MSO important? |
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| At the tactical level, activities of military forces to provide essential civil services are often defined in terms of the immediate humanitarian needs of the people: provide food, water, shelter, and medical support necessary to sustain the population until local civil servies are restored. Once their immediate needs are satisfied, efforts to restore basic services and transition control to civil authoritis typically progress using lines of effort based on the memory aid, SWEAT-MSO. These lines of effort are vital to integrating efforts to reestablish local civil services with similar, related actions to establish a safe, secure environment. Military forces, specifically functional units or functional specialists, may support the effort to provide essential civil services by conducting detailed infrastructure recon." |
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| What are the 3 books Major Johnson suggested we read? |
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| The Pentagon's New Map, Sling and the Stone, FM 3-24 |
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| What chapter of FM 3-24 guides us how to shape-clear-hold-build in a COIN environment? |
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Is shape-clear-hold-build in a COIN environment linear?
Why? |
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| No. The phase the unit performs is determined by the environment in an area of operation and each area must by assessed. Different villages, cities, or regions can be in varying degrees of insurgent control to host-nation control. Moreover, different areas in one city or differnt towns in one region might be along a spectrum of insurgent to host nation control. Areas can progress during a counterinsurgency. While the shape-clear-hold-build-transition framework can be a phased operation in each area, the environment must dictate its progress. The counterinsurgent uses the framework as the way to synchronize subordinate unit actions, prioritize efforts, allocate resouces, and direct specific effects to achieve end state criteria in an ever-changing environment. The overall objective of usin gthe shape-clear-hold-build-transition framework is to transition responsibility for countering the insurgency to the host nation's institutions. The commander must understand that conditions associated with the clear, the hold, and the build phases may be present at any time in different areas. US forces may carry out a range of tasks throughout the entirety of the SCHB transition framework |
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| Is there a single decisive operation in COIN as it relates to shape-clear-hold-build? |
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| No. The phase the environment is in dictates the decisive operation, priorities, and resourcing. Each phase has its independent main effort or decisive operation. |
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who is BG Mohatt??
what OCS class did BG Mohatt graduate from? |
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