Confronting Iran: Securing Iraq's Border

[Ron Humphrey]

Reading through this, I'm shaking my head.

Incredibly dumb idea: US troops...Getting involved in the drug trade...As part of their mission. Gee, that can't possibly go disastrously wrong, can it? </sarcasm>

Considering that I don't suppose working cooperatively with Iranian Customs would achieve much , the Generals propositions sound like a pretty good tactic to me.

[S2MSSI]

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

[Stan]

To avoid some additional focus/scrutiny on the specific recommendations (although that would be fine), our intent in the concept creation was not focused specifically on any one particular solution. There are a host 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, however, the main thrust was to also represent some UW constructs. It was our opinion from a starting point that some leadership have forgotten some great options that SOF can provide. Earlier in the year was a piece that was to readdress some IW shortcomings in today's military.

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

Thanks for the link and intriquing thoughts !

Examples: This effort may result in a variety of new specialties such as tribal liaisons, human terrain experts, cyber reconnaissance scouts, knowledge networkers, information expediters, continuity controllers and gap managers.

[slapout9]

S2MSSI, thanks for the link, I was trying to find this.