Taken from the www.borderlandbeat.com from today. What is the Movement and Maneuver warfighting function? It is what makes bringing a cookie-cutter approach to COIN and UW to be such a terrible idea, and yet our bureaucracy forces us into these approaches at the operational and higher levels. Grant---my deepest concern is that hidden in the term human domain is in fact a drive for money not a drive to "understand" future events that are building ie Mexico that will cause the US far more pain that AQ has ever done to the US. We Westerners suffer from the belief that everyone is just like us. I also don't see how managing humans, be you occupying them or sharing some skills, is a uniquely UW/SW activity. How the ambient light, wind, noise, smell and soil composition telegraphs movement of a single man, a squad, company or a battalion; at dawn, midday, dusk and the middle of the night. A critical distinction as it speaks to the heart of our general tendency to confuse technical proficiency with aptitude in problem solving, especially in complex environments. As usual there are a multitude of reasons. The I hate using this term in the "old days" of SF we had the SORO who published excellent area studies that we inhaled prior to a deployment into those areas---and guess what they were extremely accurate even five years after some of them were published AND by the way CHEAP when compared to the costs of paying six digit incomes for deploying HTS teams in order to gain "human terrain" information. The fires warfighting function is the related tasks and systems that provide collective and coordinated use of Army indirect fires, AMD, and joint fires through the targeting process. Shortly after noon and simultaneously, the community police of Tanctaro, Buena Vista, Aguililla, Tepalcatepec and La Ruana liberated the municipalities of El Zapote, El Corrijo and Rancho Grande, where 18 villages coexist with about 500 inhabitants, just like Acahuato, in the municipality of Apatzingn. Interesting if one goes back and re-reads the recent SWJ article by Dave Maxwell concerning UW and strategy. Warfighting Functions: The seven mutually supporting military activities integrated in the conduct of all military operations. I add to the conversation only to throw out my thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of the human domain concept. I don't mean to sound cryptic but I don't want to open up a can of worms now when I plan to do some fishing later. The use of this scenario in order to drive critical thinking by ODAs who are planning an UW/SW deployment is a given---it offers a massive amount of free play on the planning side as well as not being able to tie it to COIN as one cannot actually get into a clear hold and expand concept. They do not need to go to small town America to watch us they have us in their country to watch. Instead it would encourage critical and creative thinking, demand a multi-framed approach at the most fundamental of levels, and require learning-in-action or reflective practice. Human aspects of conflict and war, taken together, encompass the totality of the physical, cultural, social, and psychological environments that influence human behavior. prior to embarking upon major military operations. This will ensure freedom of action, extend operational reach, and prolong endurance in support of . Well done. I must add that many would say that Special Operations is a separate Army Warfighting Function. Trusting a subordinate to plan and execute a mission objective enhances efficiency and places the U.S. at an advantage against its near-peer rivals. It is essential to retaining and exploiting the initiative. The force learns them, regurgitates them, has faith in them, and many defend them without question. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. Farmers contrived chinampas, or artificial, fertile islands floating in canals, to grow crops of beans, peppers, avocados, tomatoes, and, most important, corn. But, I would submit ones level- if seeing things that way helps- should be based on the context as opposed to a one-size-fits-all approach. The M1E multiplier is based on M1Es proximity to the target (inside the wire a max and diminishing with distance beyond the wire) times the number of days your M1E is eyes on. When COL Chamberlin ordered a bayonet charge from the defense he was banking on the fact that it would cause confusion in the enemy conducting the charge. Joint functions represent related capabilities and activities placed into basic groups to help commanders synchronize, integrate, and direct operations. or so it seems. NATURE OF PLANNING o Planning as Command and Control o The Functions of Planning and Plans o Uncertainty and Time: Planning for an Unknowable Future Aztecs, Inca, and Maya who escaped the iron swords and gunpowder of the Europeans instead suffered the old world diseases that accompanied the explorers. That we have segregated some war fighting functions along conventional and special lines is an historical reality, not a necessity. "Social" facts can be analyzed too, just not in the way you might analyze, say, a set of temperature readings. D. the Aztecs had no calendar to determine the best time to grow flowers. Sustainment provides the support necessary to maintain operations until mission accomplishment. Why Protect Mass Graves? (take it, figure out what to do with it, apply it). Since the "old" individual SF soldier as well founded in UW it was easy to shift between the various Projects, Mike Forces,and A Teams and one did not loss a single minute---AND one did not "feel" that one was being degraded if one shifted from say SR back to a CIDG team or to a Mike Force. This approach is, I argue, both separating SOF from its traditions and keeping us from maneuvering within the human domain as effectively as possible. [xxviii] USASOC, ARSOF 2022, http://www.specialoperations.org/ARSOF2022_vFINAL%5B1%5D.pdf. The alternative, and the militarys current preferred philosophy, is the technically rational approach. All of which must be done in a lawful manner. The. In the middle of the interrogation he says to me---"you all know that we know you are jamming our detonators"---being internally literally surprised by the statement---outward answer was sure we know. Democracy is a bottom-up political ideology. This handbook borrowed much of its concepts from the Armys Design Methodology (ADM). [xxiv] Just to head off any protests, I realize this dual-natured description is disingenuous, however I am constraining myself to the two choices our society presents us with and their respective approaches. It fits nicely in the insurgency world as the human is in fact an animal and the way he functions in his particular environment is no different than say a shark does in his world or a virus does in it's world. Effective maneuver requires close coordination with fires. [xxx] If Operational Design is seen by ARSOF for what it really is: a methodology best belonging to the physical domains (at the tactical level mostly), rooted in technical rationality, and in direct contradiction with the human domain concept, then it is possible that a more applicable text could be produced. while surfing the internet and posting on such open and visible places as Facebook. Most of the current inhabitants have only known ruin and violence and thus are understandably incapable of informing themselves as to what they want, let alone articulate such an abstract sentiment to a foreign infidel HT team. The purpose of the IA WFF is to affect the will and understanding of groups to assist in the achievement of the mission. This is distinct from a highly skilled practitioner of a set of skills (I.e. This is most likely well and good when SOF is engaged in doing the so-called surgical strike missions of which our nation (and our government to a large extent- to include USSOCOM) is enamored with as of late. Grant---I have been following your writings for a long number of years---this one is complex and has about three or four major points depending on interpretation---will respond but need to mull over a response as the points are both intriguing and very valid. The Fires WFF is composed of the architecture, systems and capabilities required to deliver and coordinate Fires from land or joint elements across multiple domains. It is very difficult to do: one must sacrifice ease of communication and planning as well as take on some threat to ones career. These tasks are; The purpose of the Int WFF is to know what is happening. Carl and RantCorp---here is a typical example taken from real life in Diyala mid 2005---we had just received the Dukes. who deny -- or wish to deny -- their people the rule of law, freedom of the press, the right to free and fair elections, the right to economic freedom, etc. Mr. White might be horrified to see his term associated with the military, as he is decidedly anti-militarism. It is about endurance, freedom of action, and extending the operational reach. You cannot believe how many times I tried to explain that to MNF-I in countless HUMINT reports.. The command and control WFF consists of the command and control tasks and the command and control system. The Son Tay raid never occurs, nor does the one on bin Laden because there is no rapid way to get there and away. Administrative movement is related to the Sustaining WFF. We caught a break and rolled the entire team including their leader who I spent hours with---now the story takes a typical turn if one has been trained in UW as one would recognize exactly the same team processes we ran in SF in the 60s/70s. Thus, given this mission (outlier state and societal transformation) and this problem (the "enemy" can see us coming, so to speak, even before we get on the aircraft), how then might the art and understanding of the sublime help us to overcome these difficulties? Maneuver is the means by which commanders mass the effects of combat power to achieve surprise, shock, and momentum. Sustainment influences the tempo, duration and intensity of all operations and often determines what can actually be achieved. [xxxiii] If we are to be more effective within the human domain, we must at the least question whether the Armys physical domain approach is applicable to the human domain. 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Just how many deploying BCT personnel fully understood the fighting tactics being used by the various Sunni, Shia, and AQI personnel ---did the Army via PME every have classes on this topic? As an example, consider the MiTT's of Iraq and all the other special task-organized small teams tasked with directly advising and supporting Iraqi and Afghan security forces. I would argue that we had all the understanding concerning the human factor by 2006 in literally hundreds of intelligence reports and interrogation reports---the abject failure was not on the SF side as the JSOC targeting against FF and AQI gave the CF a chance to focus their attention on the actual Sunni/Shia insurgent groups---the abject failure was the simple fact that up to even 2010 no deploying BCT fully "understood" what they were "seeing" as no one took the time inside CF to process the sheer amount of data available into a coherent training program. In my opinion the human domain is nothing more than observations on human nature and has always been a part of military thinking. Today is the hour for citizen self-management. It is often seen as the opposite of Foreign Internal Defense (FID), an umbrella term encompassing COIN. The use of "human domain" is really a simple attempt to cover up the abject failure of "understanding the environment" before they deployed. The purpose of the Fires WFF is to engage threat elements with lethal and less-lethal joint fires and effects, usually in coordination with manoeuvring ground forces (M2 WFF). movement of forces for the purpose of gaining an advantage over the enemy in order to accomplish our objectives. Perhaps most importantly, however, it calls for the sublime in order to harness what is natural to most SOF service members when they first enter the force, that is- critical and creative thinking, which, when added to a multi-frame approach and learning and reflecting-in-action allows greater effectiveness within the social realm of the human domain. What I find interesting about this revelation is that looking back it becomes almost tragic that we have completely ignored the ability to do or allow our own warfighters to have free run of using open sourced reconnaissance while our enemies have not neglected this and in fact have used it to great success. It is this fundamental characteristic that defines land force operations. In spite of the achievements and predominance of the two civilizations intact after Columbus arrived in the New World, they found themselves at the mercy of the Spaniards during the sixteenth century. In this manner, it is believed, we can continue to work to "transform" others, even in these times of austerity and achieve "staying power" through the training up and use of surrogates. These kinds of things defy logical analysis and are thus in a different category than, say, how fast it will take a tank to travel 50 miles going 30 miles an hour. [xxvi] The tactical level (young NCOs and officers) seems in my experience to have largely remained mission-focused and results oriented. Those always struck me as SF-light. Commanders integrate and synchronize these capabilities with other WFF to accomplish objectives and missions. This is the future that the ACoS means when he mentions human domain---what he does not mention ---it can only be handled via UW/SW. Original content is published under aCreative Commons Licenseper ourTerms of Use. The more conservative/anti-western reform folks -- who represent and defend the non-western way of life and way of governance of a state and society -- these folks are likely to be your natural enemies. I submit that art has a place in war, although many of us military types are a little uncomfortable about the word. Your email address will not be published. Maya civilization, often considered to be the most exalted and mysterious of the three, inhabited the Yucatan Peninsula of Eastern Mexico as long ago as 2,6002,6002,600 B.C. We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website . Russia and Ukraine battle daily in the sky. If any kind of mission was conducive to a technically rational approach, it would be surgical strike missions.[xxxvii]. Training them, advising them in raids (and in taking control of territory and then dealing with the inevitable retribution, extra-legal justice, and power struggles), especially in austere conditions, may well require a special task organization (i.e. So today we, as a nation, are facing an opponent who has recognized our power base and is determined to defeat it in such a way as to have a favorable outcome for their end state. 2013. Not always the case. Final questions: Does the "enemy" have a better understanding than we do as to our offensive strategy and our goals and objectives? Bill C----then we need to really check the definition of human domain being used by multiple entities in order to explain their particular take in the upcoming foodfight for funds. Knowing one's enemy in and out is a cornerstone of guerrilla warfare or as the Iranians call it microwarfare. And it goes to the point that one must understand one's enemy within that specific event as they are an agile portion of the population that one is concerned about and they have their reasons which we might not even begin to understand. [ix] Sacolick, Bennet S. & Grigsby, Wayne W, Jr., Special Operations/Conventional Forces Interdependence: A Critical Role in Prevent, Shape, Win, Army Magazine, JUN 2012, 39-40. This philosophy, for instance, leaves us enamored with metrics and attempting to quantify the unquantifiable. [xxx] USASOC, ARSOF 2022. Sustainment. "Understanding" and "seeing" that particular world is what we have not done well as a Force. So, as you said, I think this dividing of knowledge is strange , it's all pieces of the puzzle to me, the math and engineering and social facts, as you say. For all the efforts at "understanding the culture" of the environments we are working it failed and I mean totally failed because we did not "understand the culture of the enemy". ~ Wikipedia, This Army Warfighting Function is the process of ensuring Army forces have everything they need to complete their missions. When all came back in I was chastised for not running to the bunkers---my response was they were over 500 meters away and walking away from the initial impact point---a lot of dumb looks and a few questions as to what I meant by "walking" rounds and walking away from the impact point and how did I know it was 500 meters---this was 2005/2006 and I am betting it has not improved much since then. Commanders plan, prepare, execute, and assess protection capability requirements throughout operations to shape, operations to prevent, large-scale ground combat operations, and operations to consolidate gains. Complete discussions by all ranks and ages---and we ran MDMP even in the 60s but it was creative and free thinking for all until the team was comfortable with the solution. Win friends and influence people? Certainly an insight into the latter three can be gained from understanding the local culture. There were some interesting comments posted to Dave Maxwell's article on UW several weeks ago here in SWJ that are worth going back and re-reading. Indeed, advise/assist can be done by conventional forces. For purposes of the definition, the term enemy includes the entire range of threats and the term terrain includes weather. We have to take a look at the paradox of the human domain before we can offer a way out of this conceptual mess weve made for ourselves. In typical UW fashion he pulls his entire team together and they go over in detail all the circuits and devices---found nothing and went out to attempt it again. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The Mission Command function allows commanders to balance their command and control duties while integrating the other Warfighting Functions. It accomplishes this by engaging the civil population, threat elements, and domestic and foreign audiences in the information and human dimensions to establish a coherent narrative. "The goal is not more money, more missions, or more personnel. The danger lies with ARSOF copying the U.S. Armys use of physical domain approaches when it comes to the human domain. You cannot believe how many times I tried to explain that to MNF-I in countless HUMINT reports. Did those deploying understand "swarming" as practiced historically and used in Iraq and AFG? I have even gone so far as to suggest that in knowing oneself (specifically one's political objective) one can: b. The systematic theory is highly suspect, as the Soviet centralized system should have taught us. The warfighting functions are the physical means that tactical commanders use to execute operations and accomplish missions assigned by superior tactical- and operational-level commanders. Thank you for stopping in today and please share this post with others. Nothing terrible here, very human stories of parties and attaches and looking for housing and going to a local bazaar and all the politics you all must deal with when you are in a different country. Maneuver is the employment of forces in the operational area through movement in combination with fires to achieve a position of advantage in respect to the enemy in order to accomplish the mission. After all, there are many examples in our own history where military commanders considered the population [or human domain as we call it now?] 2- that this influence undermined the very foundation of our DoD system of systems- which relies on nested purposes and logic from the most tactical all the way up to the President's national security strategy. The rationale being the MIE multiplier might provide more of an insight into the dynamics of the conflict ecosystem than the digitally driven lens we are currently enslaved to. Those two things are our inability to clearly articulate what it is we do within SOF and the afore-mentioned continued struggles in Afghanistan. With that being said, there has been a push to allow our warfighters greater freedoms with these tools because its being argued that we are losing the message and by allowing greater freedom with these tools we are allowing our warfighters to get the positive message out. [xxxvi] This is because, if anything, surgical strike missions are very limited in time and scope and their objectives are clear and unambiguous. The goal of our young folks today -- via for example: diplomacy, development and defense -- is to undermine and eliminate the alternative ways of life and alternative ways of governance of the lesser and remaining states and societies and to, as in the case of the great powers above, replace these with ways of life and ways of governance which are more similar to our own. ~ Lightning Press. The CIMIC aspect of the IA WFF is composed of all systems, capabilities and elements tasked to support or otherwise engage with the non-military communities, including dedicated CIMIC units. Mentioned as inspiration for The Matrix films, one might compare the militarys paradigm to the Matrix: we are locked into it, but unaware of its existence. It is also a mistake to apply it equally in all situations. What I don't like is the idea that as long as it is hard we should not try and simply leave it to others to figure out. But- point taken- and agree. One cannot believe how many times I have heard the comment "we cannot template the insurgency"---my argument even to today was "yes we could as they were hiding nothing from us"---the CF just did not want to admit that the insurgency was a living, thinking, adapting group of people who were giving us a solid run for our money----or is anyone wanting and or willing to state we "won" the IED fight in Iraq and or AFG----Gen. P nor Nagel has ever mentioned anything on this front. Ancient pyramids inscribed with weathered glyphs and characters from the most advanced ancient alphabet in the western hemisphere now sit abandoned, obscured by centuries of jungle growth. That's funny. Instead of ignoring them like a Leave It To Beaver kind of approach to one's higher's OPORD, those things have to be critically investigated. In addition, they are more likely to remain fixated on the hyper-tactical level of operations. MS 301: Training Management and the Warfighting Functions Revision Date: 31 March 2022 Lesson 20,23,26,29,32: Branch Orientation Briefings Student Handout 1 Information Briefing Sheet Cadets will prepare and present an information briefing concerning an assigned branch. The memoir covers the period from about 1941 to 1973. It could be extremely beneficial if we allowed our people to openly look for information that our enemies are posting openly, yet we need to restrict or control exactly how and what our own people are posting when they are in theater. It means preserving the force which includes personnel and physical assets of the United States as well as the host nation and any military or civilian allies. Where is that quote from? Therefore many in SOF will call a Special Forces (SF) Group a tactical level organization. The first is the more political aspects of military operations. And understand that the enemy (government or population, as the case may be), will not, as was thought, be waiting with roses. Below is a reading passage followed by several multiple-choice question. Grant---I think part of the current issue inside SF is a distinct lack of UW experience passed on from the 60/70s to the Groups having to just survive in order to rebuild. London: Temple Smith, 1983. [xxxiv] White, Curtis, 7. (The enemy is not confused and is under no illusion. So as we go into a country in Africa or in the Middle East or the Pacific region, were learning about them. These cookies do not store any personal information. I would agree that we (the U.S. Military types) don't know what to do with all this stuff we currently can't measure. Commanders use thewarfighting functionsto help them exercise command and to help them and their staffs exercise control. 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