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Occupation and Governance - The New Face of Operational Art (Paperback)
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Occupation and Governance - The New Face of Operational Art (Paperback)
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Loot Price R432
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The United States and many other countries are engaged in the
Global War on Terror using all the elements of their national
powers. Much of the diplomatic, economic and perhaps some of the
military actions take place behind the scenes and often through
proxies. Even so, given historical precedent and the plethora of
rogue and failing states in existence today, future large-scale
military intervention in some areas is virtually inevitable. A
multinational military coalition is presently struggling to
stabilize Iraq two years after initial occupation and governance
operations met with limited success. This modern operation stands
in sharp contrast to the notably successful occupations of Germany
and Japan more than half a century ago. If these types of
operations are inevitable, but the US military has lost some
proficiency in their execution, it is incumbent upon professional
soldiers to discover and remedy the problems. The purpose of this
monograph is to identify the effects required to execute a
successful stability and reconstruction operation following a
kinetic combat operation, determine the shortcomings in current
doctrine's ability to plan for those effects, and make the
recommended changes to remedy the problem. Historical case studies
on the occupations of Germany and Japan as well as the more recent
operations in Iraq provide insight into the requirements for the
success of the occupation forces. These requirements, juxtaposed
with a survey of both past and present occupation and governance
doctrine, provide a basis to analyze the effectiveness of the
current doctrine. This monograph concludes that although the
national goals and objectives are generally accomplished in the
occupation and reconstruction phase of an operation, current
doctrine encourages planning from the perspective that the kinetic
combat phase is decisive. Additionally, the specific doctrine
dealing with occupation and military governance is fragmented and
diluted in a number of the Joint and Army doctrinal manuals. The
remedy to the problem is to rewrite the capstone manuals placing
emphasis on planning the post-combat or occupation phase first, as
the core of the campaign. Then plan all the other elements, from
the combat phase to the inevitably required humanitarian
assistance, as enabling operations that support the decisive
occupation phase. Additionally, the military must consolidate and
publish occupation and governance doctrine in a single source
publication similar to those published by the War Department prior
to and during WWII.
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