McWp 3-35.3 - Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (Mout)

McWp 3-35.3 - Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (Mout)
Author: U. S. Marine Corps
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781312884557

This manual provides guidance for the organization, planning, and conduct of the full range of military operations on urbanized terrain. This publication was prepared primarily for commanders, staffs, and subordinate leaders down to the squad and fire team level. It is written from a Marine air-ground task force perspective, with emphasis on the ground combat element as the most likely supported element in that environment. It provides the level of detailed information that supports the complexities of planning, preparing for, and executing small-unit combat operations on urbanized terrain. It also provides historical and environmental information that supports planning and training for combat in built-up areas

Stability Economics - the Economic Foundations of Security in Post-Conflict Environments

Stability Economics - the Economic Foundations of Security in Post-Conflict Environments
Author: Nathan Toronto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781098716325

In the years after invading Iraq and Afghanistan, the US military realized that it had a problem: How does a military force set the economic conditions for security success? This problem was certainly not novel--the military had confronted it before in such diverse locations as Grenada, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. The scale and complexity of the problem, however, were unlike anything military planners had confronted beforehand. This was especially the case in Iraq, where some commentators expected oil production to drive reconstruction.

U.S. Marines and Irregular Warfare

U.S. Marines and Irregular Warfare
Author: Nicholas J. Schlosser
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780160927836

U.S. Marines in Irregular Warfare: Training and Education is a brief history that recounts how the U.S. Marine Corps adapted to fight the Global War on Terrorism during 2000-10. The Marine Corps has a long history of fighting irregular wars, including the Banana Wars in Central America during the 1920s and the Vietnam War during the 1960s. To battle the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Corps drew upon this experience while also implementing new plans and programs to better prepare Marines to carry out counterinsurgency operations. The Marine Corps updated the curriculum at the Command and Staff College and transformed the annual Combined Arms Exercise into Exercise Mojave Viper: an immersive training program that simulated the urban environments in which Marines would be operating in Southwest Asia. Most importantly, Marines adjusted in the field, as battalion and company commanders drew on their basic training and education to devise innovative tactics to better combat the new threats they now faced. ?us, as this story shows, the Marine Corps did not undergo a radical transformation to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, but instead drew on principles that had defined it as a warfighting organization throughout most of its history. Keywords: United States Marine Corps; United States Marines; U.S. Marine Corps; U.S. Marines; Marines; Marine Corps; Global War on Terrorism; global war on terrorism; irregular warfare; military strategy; counterinsurgency; combat; iraq war; Iraq War; Afghanistan; military education; soldier training; combat training and tactics; Southwest Asia

Defence Diplomacy in the Long War

Defence Diplomacy in the Long War
Author: Patrick Blannin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2017-08-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004354069

One of the most dominant security issues of the twenty-first century has been the US led battle against transnational terrorism – the aptly named Long War. Over the past fifteen years the Long War has been examined using multiple perspectives. However, one central mechanism is missing in current Long War analyses: defence diplomacy. Defence diplomacy enhances the diplomatic and security capacity of a state, providing the only link between executive office and the ministries of foreign affairs and defence, two vital institutions in the Long War. Using a case study of US defence diplomacy in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014, the paper argues simply that the practice of defence diplomacy far outweighs current theories on what it is, how it works and why it matters. The paper aims to generate a more nuanced understanding of defence diplomacy, as well as identify it as a key component of the US CT/COIN strategy to achieve their Long War policy objectives.

Intelligence Training and Readiness Manual

Intelligence Training and Readiness Manual
Author: Department of the Navy Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011-03-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781491223062

Intelligence Training and Readiness Manual (NAVMC 3500.100) details standardized training of Marines and Navy personnel assigned to perform intelligence functions.

The U. S. Army and the Battle for Baghdad

The U. S. Army and the Battle for Baghdad
Author: David E. Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780833096012

To help the U.S. Army and U.S. Department of Defense retain institutional knowledge and fully prepare future leaders, RAND researchers recount the Army's efforts in the Iraq War, especially in Baghdad, and offer lessons learned and recommendations.

Urban Operations

Urban Operations
Author: Department of the Army
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2014-03-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781497467897

Doctrine provides a military organization with a common philosophy, a language, a purpose, and unity of effort. Rather than establishing a set of hard and fast rules, the objective of doctrine is to foster initiative and creative thinking. To this end, FM 3-06 discusses major Army operations in an urban environment. This environment, consisting of complex terrain, a concentrated population, and an infrastructure of systems, is an operational environment in which Army forces will operate. In the future, it may be the predominant operational environment. Each urban operation is unique and will differ because of the multitude of combinations presented by the threat, the urban area itself, the major operation of which it may be part (or the focus), and the fluidity of societal and geopolitical considerations. Therefore, there will always exist an innate tension between Army doctrine, the actual context of the urban operation, and future realities. Commanders must strike the proper balance between maintaining the capability to respond to current threats and preparing for future challenges.

Complex Terrain

Complex Terrain
Author: Benjamin M. Jensen
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9781732003040

"This book explores military operations, including indirect support to other interagency actors and functions in dense urban terrain and megacities. Dense urban terrain describes urban areas with high population densities that, in the developing world, often outstrip the capacity of local governance systems to exert formal control. The term megacity describes a city with a population of 10 million or more. These environments define patterns of human settlement. In 1950, only 30 percent of the world's population lived in cities compared to more than 55 percent in 2018. Much of this growth is concentrated in large, urban centers that connect a global flow of goods and ideas. By 2030, there will be more than 40 of these megacities"--