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operations by gaining understanding of the relevant populations, cultures,
political authorities, personalities, security forces, and terrain within
potential operational areas. The teams will assist in the training and
preparation of friendly security and irregular forces to wage IW. The teams
will use their cultural understanding of the population to influence the
indigenous people in terms meaningful to them and through their own key
communicators. The teams will contribute to joint force operational reach
by enabling the rapid employment of forces during crises and contingency
operations.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships to Support IW.
IW is about the people. The ability of the joint force to conduct IW will be
dependant on its ability to provide continuity of effort over protracted periods.
This continuity of effort will depend on the ability of joint force members to
establish and maintain long-term interpersonal relationships with their
counterparts in the relevant US missions and with foreign governments,
traditional political authorities, and security forces.
Expanding the Role of GPF to Support and Execute IW. Executing IW
campaigns will increasingly require GPF to perform missions that in the last few
decades have been viewed primarily as SOF activities. Rebalancing GPF to
conduct IW will expand joint force operational reach and enhance GPF
versatility. The results will be improved capability to operate against adversaries
who use IW and an expanded ability to use IW to achieve US strategic objectives.
GPF personnel will receive cultural and language training for the operational
areas to which they deploy. They will be knowledgeable of the strategic and
operational objectives in the operational area. They will be able to communicate
the strategic message. Increased GPF interaction abroad is an opportunity to
gain area familiarization and gather useful information about potential
operational areas. Specific GPF requirements include the following:
• Provide Support to Distributed IW Operations. The focus on the
population and the nature of the adversaries leads to the need for a greater
number of small units operating in a distributed manner throughout a
potentially large operational area. These units may be operating in
conjunction with the forces of strategic partners, as trainers or advisors, or
they may be operating independently. In any case, the GPF may be required
to provide logistic support; fire support; and combat unit reinforcement.
Specific examples of support to IW include:
o Deliver precision fires to globally distributed forces conducting IW.
o Deliver logistic and personnel support to potentially hundreds of small
dispersed teams operating globally in permissive, contested, and denied
areas.
o Provide emergency extraction and personnel recovery globally to all
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