Shortchanging the Joint Fight? An Airman's Assessment of FM 3-24 and the Case for Developing Truly Joint COIN Doctrine: Counterinsurgency, Airpower Myths, Army and Marine Tactical Doctrine, Iraq War Shortchanging the Joint Fight? An Airman's Assessment of FM 3-24 and the Case for Developing Truly Joint COIN Doctrine: Counterinsurgency, Airpower Myths, Army and Marine Tactical Doctrine, Iraq War

Shortchanging the Joint Fight? An Airman's Assessment of FM 3-24 and the Case for Developing Truly Joint COIN Doctrine: Counterinsurgency, Airpower Myths, Army and Marine Tactical Doctrine, Iraq War

Progressive Management
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This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Is America's counterinsurgency (COIN) effort being shortchanged? Does a one-dimensional doctrine fail to exploit America's full COIN potential? Would a genuinely joint approach provide better options to decision-makers confronted with the harsh realities of twenty-first century insurgencies? This study insists the answers are unequivocally "yes." It analyzes the pitfalls of accepting Army/Marine tactical doctrine as the joint solution. It also offers insights and ideas from an Airman's perspective for strengthening joint COIN doctrine development in order to deliver fresh alternatives to our national decision-makers and combatant commanders.

Of central importance to this assessment is the Army's December 2006 Field Manual (FM) 3-24, Counterinsurgency (designated by the Marine Corps as Warfighting Publication 3-33.5).2 This impressive and influential3 282-page document skillfully addresses many difficult COIN issues, but regrettably reflects a one-dimensional, ground-centric perspective almost exclusively, as evidenced by the fact that considerations of airpower are confined to a short, five-page annex.
By failing to reconcile the full potential of today's airpower capabilities and by focusing almost exclusively on the surface dimension, FM 3-24 - despite its many virtues and remarkable insights—nevertheless falls short of offering US decision-makers a pragmatic, overall solution for the challenge of counterinsurgency.

INTRODUCTION * FM 3-24'S GROUND-FORCE CONVENTIONALITY * COIN AND AN AIRMAN'S WAY OF THINKING * FM 3-24'S AIRPOWER MYTHS * CONSIDERATIONS FOR AIRMINDED COIN DOCTRINE * CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2016
4 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
170
Pages
PUBLISHER
Progressive Management
SELLER
Draft2Digital, LLC
SIZE
287
KB

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