Format:
1 online resource (165 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780833049360
Content:
Documents a study whose goals were to develop an understanding of commanders' information requirements for cultural and other "soft" factors in order to improve the effectiveness of combined arms operations, and to develop practical ways for commanders to integrate information and influence operations activities into combined arms planning/assessment in order to increase the usefulness to ground commanders of such operations.
Content:
Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE - Introduction -- Defining Terms -- Study Tasks and Analytic Approach -- Organization of This Monograph -- CHAPTER TWO - Commanders' Information Needs for Influence Operations -- Insights from Structured Conversations with Commanders -- Insights from Recent Papers by Senior Commanders -- GEN Peter W. Chiarelli, Commander, 1st Cavalry Division -- MG David H. Petraeus, Commander, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) -- LTG Thomas F. Metz, Commander, III Corps, Coalition Joint Task Force-7, and Multi-National Corps-Iraq -- COL Ralph O. Baker, Commander, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division -- Key Common Insights from Commanders' Papers -- Insights from Case Study Analyses -- Bosnia -- Kosovo -- Afghanistan -- Iraq -- Key Trends and Contrasts -- Insights from the National Training Center -- Insights from 1st Information Operations Command -- Observations from Unified Quest 2006 -- Insights from a Review of Doctrine, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, and Task Lists -- Chapter Conclusions -- CHAPTER THREE - Sources of Commanders' Information Needs -- Commanders' Guidance -- The Operating Environment and Information Domain -- The Battlefield Environment -- The Threat Domain -- The Information Domain -- Resources Available to the Commander -- Chapter Conclusions -- CHAPTER FOUR - Remaining Challenges -- Vertical Coordination and Echelonment -- Horizontal Coordination Across Areas of Operation -- Ensuring Continuity in Transitions -- Overcoming Doctrinal Stovepiping of Information Operations -- APPENDIX A - Identified Information Requirements for Influence Operations -- APPENDIX B - Task List Analysis -- APPENDIX C - A Metrics-Based Planning and Assessment Approach for Influence Operations.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780833046918
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780833046918
Language:
English
