Title The innate insurgent advantage : can training and planning bridge the gap? / Gary W. Boyd, Department of the Air Force civilian

Published Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 33 pages) : illustrations Series Wright flyer paper ; no. 57 Wright flyer paper ; no. 57. Contents Casualties and chaos -- Analysis of change impact -- Examining the data -- Conclusion Summary "This study examines the role of training, planning, and technological changes in helping turn around coalition and American efforts in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). The United States rushed headlong into protracted stabilization, security, transition, and rebuilding (SSTR) operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite the wealth of historical, doctrinal, and experiential knowledge available to help mitigate casualties and restore security in such operations, the United States and its coalition partners failed to adequately plan, train, or equip their individual forces until years after the start of the conflict. The objective of this research was to determine if training, planning, doctrine, and concomitant technological advances helped turn the tide in OIF and later OEF as the United States and its forces institutionalized new doctrines and embraced the lessons of history. The United States and its coalition partners made great strides in reversing what had been virtual lost causes and reshaping planning, training, strategy, and tactics to affect meaningful successes and gradual withdrawal throughout the region. This brief study examines the methods, training, and decisions that helped make moderate successes possible after particularly dark days from 2004 through 2006. The evidence suggests that dedicated planning and training were indeed decisive in bridging the advantages enjoyed by insurgents fighting in their homeland with ample outside and local support -- even if a little late to the need in the concentrations required for moderate success. It is hoped this paper will contribute to a permanent knowledge storehouse on effective end-state operations after so high a price was paid for the knowledge by this generation of warriors"--Abstract Notes At head of title: Air University, Air Command and Staff College Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 28-31) Subject Iraq War, 2003-2011. Afghan War, 2001-2021. Counterinsurgency -- United States Military planning -- United States Military education -- United States. Strategy. Armed Forces -- Stability operations Counterinsurgency Military education Military planning Military policy Strategy SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- Stability operations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006001325 United States -- Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379 Subject Iraq United States Form Electronic book Author Air University (U.S.). Air Command and Staff College, issuing body. Air University (U.S.). Air Force Research Institute, publisher. Air University (U.S.). Press, publisher.

Other Titles Can training and planning bridge the gap?

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