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Originally Posted by x SF med
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Thanks for posting the OP, it was amazing to me how little UW/FID/GW has changed from Lawrence's time, and IIRC what was taught in the quonsets at CMK back when I went through the course. A lot of it (to me, at least) is the implementation of "hiding in plain sight" with your HN/G group... language, culture, advice, rapport, acceptance...
Conventional forces are not trained in this, and I'm not sure if a 'short course' for them would be a good thing - a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, especially if there is no one wit hthe depth of knowledge to guide them.
Well, just my .02 on the consistency of UW (wow, that seems like an oxymoron, doesn't it?).
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As a conventional guy I totally agree.
Conventional forces aren't trained on this and few have a good excuse on why. Particularly in terms of the operating environment conventional units find themselves into today, it's a tragedy that
some simply don't make it a priority for training. Those are the units we read about in USA Today.
There are a lot of units collocated on the same post as a group. My Regimental Commander aked the 10SFG commander to give an 4 hour OPD. Our regimental S2 section learned from a lot of the group S2 people. IMHO that worked pretty good. Outside of that, we tried to integration ODAs into the MRE before deployment to at least give commanders at the troop and company level the experiece of what it meant to cohabitate the same AO with a team and how to compliment strengths (heavy armor protection (ACR) with cultural awareness and FID/IDAD experience (SF)). Good units are brining in outside cultural experts as well. More emphasis on language and cultural training is being placed in the training calandar.
A lot of units just look at the kinetic fight as the decisive point. The bottom line is that many conventional units need to ask themselves if they're truely prepared to operate within the given environment and win, not just on the tactical kinetic engagement level, but throughout all the lines of operation that don't include combat operations (Civil-military operations, training, equiping, and operating with indigenous forces, economic development, and Information Operations).
For what it's worth...