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be robust enough to meet civil administration functions in the
absence of IA support, or for protracted periods of time until
appropriate civil authorities can assume these functions in IW
environments.
Assist OGAs to build more expeditionary capabilities for performing
their functions in IW environments.
• Manning the Joint Force for IW. The joint force will be different from
the force of today because of targeted recruitment of native linguists of
relevant ethnicities to fill the forward-based teams of regional specialists
permanently engaged in IW. This dramatic change in joint force
recruitment and assignments will facilitate permanent assignment of joint
teams within a single operational area, potentially for their entire careers.
These teams will be able to train and advise partner security forces, link
those forces to US and coalition CS and CSS, conduct IPE and OPE, and
perform advance force operations for deploying joint expeditionary forces
during crises and contingency operations.
• Training the Joint Force for IW. Future operational commanders will
require a joint force that is fully trained, equipped, integrated, combatready,
and available to conduct and/or counter IW operations on demand.
Further, this joint force must be flexible and adaptable enough to
prosecute an IW scenario while it is conducting other types of missions
across the full range of military operations. This will require:
• The Services to provide a pool of linguistically and culturally
educated personnel capable of operating in priority countries.
• A greater degree of force management, since language and cultural
knowledge is not easily transferable between regions.
• The ability to apply precise and discrete force during combat
operations among and within close proximity to the population.
• Joint Force Leadership Development. Leadership development will need
to address the challenges of decision-making in an IW environment. The
joint force must devise a training strategy to provide leadership an indepth
knowledge of specific geographical areas and concurrent training in
the culture and politics of that area. The strategy should employ training
support tools as distance learning, simulations, and reach-back to allow
leaders to maintain currency and proficiency. The strategy should address
use of intelligence resources, sharing information in a joint environment,
and engaging foreign leaders in dialog and negotiation. Successful leaders
will be adaptive, able to rapidly change their method or approach to
decision-making and problem-solving in an ambiguous and complex IW
environment.
• IW Stress on Joint Force Personnel. Operating in an IW environment
will create new mental and physiological demands on personnel
conducting long-term assignments in foreign austere settings. Stresses on
both personnel and units caused by frequent, repetitive, dangerous, and
apparently endless deployments in remote areas of the world will have a
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