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Lieutenant Daniel R Green was a mobilised US Navy Reservist working as the ISAF Joint Command liaison office to the US Embassy’s Office of Interagency Provincial Affairs in Kabul, Afghanistan from 2009–10. He previously served as the US Department of State representative to the Tarin Kot Provincial Reconstruction Team in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan in 2005–06 and as a Tribal and Leadership Engagement Officer with the US Navy in Fallujah, Iraq in 2007. The views expressed in the article are the author’s …
Abstract One of the enduring challenges of the war in Afghanistan has been the synchronised delivery of sustained population protection with robust good governance, development, and reconstruction efforts. Beginning in 2009, the United States began to send additional resources to Afghanistan in order to adopt a population-centric counterinsurgency strategy. Significant efforts were made to better organise US and NATO military forces to implement this strategy and the US Embassy also sought to better …
Captain Matt Proud enlisted into the Army in January 2003. In 2004 he attended the Australian Defence Force Academy and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Management and Geography) in 2006. Upon graduation from the Royal Military College – Duntroon in 2007 he was posted to the 1st Battalion the Royal Australian Regiment and was deployed to Afghanistan with Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force – 2. He is currently the Second in Command of the South Queensland Wing of the Warrant Officer and Non-Commissioned …
Abstract This article examines the key role that junior commanders and their soldiers must play in the execution of force concepts necessitated by the emergence of modern counterinsurgency warfare. Now more than ever, platoon teams and sections have the moral, legal and strategic imperative to analyse and apply force concepts at a rate and magnitude equal to, if not in excess of, their higher command. This article discusses approaches to this increased pressure by drawing on experiences from platoon teams …