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action. Integrate multi-agency planners within the operational planning team to
coordinate military operations with OGA activities. Specific efforts include:
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• Incorporating regional area officers within the operational planning
team.
• Exchanging liaison elements from Nation Sparrow via coordination
through Combatant Command Ford.
• Coordinating planning against transnational terrorist elements with
appropriate global and geographic combatant commands.
• Planning alternative basing strategies that enable the rapid
introduction and withdrawal of forces as needed.
• Planning for rapid response against extremists using strike assets.
Because we will be operating in three distinct geo-political environments—
permissive (Country A), uncertain (Country B), and hostile (Country C) -- our
actions across the region must be synchronized so that actions in one
environment do not create deleterious consequences in another environment.
End State. Countries in the region that: can provide effective governance and
stability within their borders; can defeat terrorist elements seeking to operate
within the region; possess the requisite conditions to allow long-term economic
growth.
4. Country A: Executing IW Operations Within a Friendly State
Special Situation. Country A hosts US forces (to include logistic elements)
involved in regional security operations. In addition, Nation Sparrow has
been assisting Country A with security and economic development.
Red Elements. Transnational terrorist elements (with ties to local militias
and displaced elements from Country B) that are capable of clandestine
movement, bombings, assassinations, and conducting ambushes.
• Objective. Force the withdrawal of Western forces throughout the
region and maintain or expand a strong regional network of terrorist
forces and supporters.
• Concept. Disrupt HN and Blue/Green efforts to provide internal
security within Country A. Focus on HN governmental targets and
Western soft targets (e.g., hotels). Exploit widespread corruption that
exists to undermine economic recovery and exploit tribal conflicts. The
insurgents can be expected to conduct ambushes, guerrilla attacks,
and use a large array of explosive devices. They are actively trying to
obtain weapons of mass effects from organizations and states
sympathetic to their cause.
Brown Elements. Internal tribal and ethnic groups who support the terrorist
insurgency only to the extent that it increases their chances of assuming
power within the country.
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