New is relative, I guess. They've been recruiting for a while. Here's an article from the Mar 05 issue of Army:Originally Posted by jcustis
The Asymetric Warfare Group: Closing the Gaps
Asymmetric Warfare group
Looks like a dashing new rapidly-deployable unit is on the horizon for the Army. http://www.awg.army.mil/. It requires AKO credentials. EDITED: I dug deeper and it isn't new. I found a 2005 press release about one of its planned training evolutions at Ft AP Hill.
Any of the Army brethren here know more about it on the unclass side (how it has progressed)?
Last edited by jcustis; 01-19-2007 at 03:37 PM.
New is relative, I guess. They've been recruiting for a while. Here's an article from the Mar 05 issue of Army:
The Asymetric Warfare Group: Closing the Gaps
Awg
They do good work. In many ways they have echoed what we have been doing BUT because they are new their focus in certain issues gets looked at quicker.
Best
Tom
Reading through the article, I didn't notice anything on reconstruction, psyops or cultural analysis. Since I don't have access to what they are actually producing, I wonder if anyone could comment on his. Are they actually doing anything on the political/information front?
Marc
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Carleton University
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Marc,
They are an outgowth of the IED task force. They do a variety of things. There is a thinking part of it, and there is another side to that unit as well. There isn't much on it out there because they are new. There probably won't be much out there on them for quite some time.
Thanks, Jimbo. I hope that they come out wit some material that we can see soon.
Marc
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Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Senior Research Fellow,
The Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, NPSIA
Carleton University
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Marc,
Some of their stuff is out in the training base. Don't expect a lot on these guys anytime soon (read between the lines).
I always wondered if they might need somebody for cyber-warfare/forensics?
Sam Liles
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LOLOL Yeah, that would, IMO, be a benefit. I wonder if they could use a symbolic Anthropologist as well.
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Well, one could be useful for mine clearing and hands-on demolition removal.LOLOL Yeah, that would, IMO, be a benefit. I wonder if they could use a symbolic Anthropologist as well
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Only if they were true post-modernists... after all, they are the specialists in deconstruction.
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The Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, NPSIA
Carleton University
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Any outfit whose motto is
"Normal is a cycle on a washing machine" transliterated from the Pikuni bears some anthropological watching...
My favorite Firesign Theater line seems appropriate here: "Hey--I think we're all bozos on this bus"eh? You all lost me.
I always liked "I'm gonna cut the soles off my shoes, live in a tree, and learn to play the flute!"...although the routine with Leftenant Behind of the Seventh Seal Cavalry is also worthy of mention.
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
An old deminer's adage is that even the untrained can clear at least one landmine.
Once.
Well, can you think of a better use for anthropologists?
According to some guys I met from New Guinea they taste good with BBQ sauce.
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Do they do "dry" or "wet" BBQ?
The FDA would never approve
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What are you going to do with cannibals? They started arguing over whether mustard or catsup based sauces were best. I told them dry rub was the only real option and then they started talking about seasoning options for technologists.
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