Confronting Iran: Securing Iraq's Border

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To avoid some additional focus/scrutiny on the specific recommendations (although that would be fine), our intent in the concept creation was not just to focus specifically on any one particular solution. There are a host of additional actions that we left out for specific reasons and a number that would have to go together with other participants. We weighed a number of the concepts and thought these could be very plausible and effective when combined together, however, the main thrust was to also represent some UW constructs and applicability to other AOs. It was also our opinion from a starting point that some leadership have forgotten many of the great options that SOF can provide to today's threats. Unfortunately, they take time and patience to do it right.

Earlier in the year was a piece that was developed to re-address some IW shortcomings in today's military. The Iran piece leveraged many of those concepts that can be and should be in our box of tools, driven by today's leaders for tomorrow.

Scott

Link for reference: http://www.mccormicktribune.org/publ...larwarfare.pdf