Download or read book Military Training written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Training: Actions Needed to Improve Planning and Coordination of Army and Marine Corps Language and Culture Training

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Download or read book Military Training written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, and in the foreseeable future, military operations require U.S. personnel, in particular Army and Marine Corps ground forces, to communicate and interact with multinational partners and local populations. The committee report accompanying a proposed bill for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 directed GAO to review several issues related to language and culture training for Army and Marine Corps general purpose forces. For this report, GAO evaluated (1) the extent to which the Army and Marine Corps had developed strategies with elements such as goals, funding priorities, and metrics to guide training approaches and investments that were aligned with Department of Defense (DOD) planning efforts and (2) DOD's approach for identifying training requirements for Army and Marine Corps forces that will deploy to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. To do so, GAO analyzed Army and Marine Corps strategies and training requirements and interviewed cognizant officials. GAO recommends that the Army and Marine Corps assign responsibilities for program performance, and identify training investments and metrics; DOD establish a defined planning process with internal mechanisms, such as procedures and milestones, to align training efforts; and U.S. Central Command establish a process to identify and synchronize training requirements. DOD generally agreed with the recommendations.

Download or read book Military Training written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

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Download or read book Culture in Conflict written by Paula Holmes-Eber and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the irregular warfare challenges facing the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2005, General James Mattis—then commander of Marine Corps Combat Development Command—established a new Marine Corps cultural initiative. The goal was simple: teach Marines to interact successfully with the local population in areas of conflict. The implications, however, were anything but simple: transform an elite military culture founded on the principles of "locate, close with, and destroy the enemy" into a "culturally savvy" Marine Corps. Culture in Conflict: Irregular Warfare, Culture Policy, and the Marine Corps examines the conflicted trajectory of the Marine Corps' efforts to institute a radical culture policy into a military organization that is structured and trained to fight conventional wars. More importantly, however, it is a compelling book about America's shifting military identity in a new world of unconventional warfare.

Download or read book Cultural Heritage in the Crosshairs written by Joris Kila and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protection of cultural property during times of armed conflict and social unrest has been an on-going challenge for military forces throughout the world even after the ratification and implementation of the 1954 Hague Convention and its two Protocols by participating nations. This volume provides a series of case studies and “lessons learned” to assess the current status of Cultural Property Protection (CPP) and the military, and use that information to rethink the way forward. The contributors are all recognized experts in the field of military CPP or cultural heritage and conflict, and all are actively engaged in developing national and international solutions for the protection and conservation of these non-renewable resources and the intangible cultural values that they represent.

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Download or read book Language and Culture Training written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Department of Defense (DOD) hasemphasized the importance ofdeveloping language skills andknowledge of foreign cultures to meetcurrent and future needs and isinvesting millions of dollars to providelanguage and culture predeploymenttraining to its general purpose forces.DOD has also noted that such trainingshould be viewed as a long-terminvestment and that training andpersonnel systems should betteraccount for the knowledge and skills ofservice members acquired throughtraining to help manage its forces. Thecommittee report accompanying aproposed bill for the National DefenseAuthorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011(H.R. 5136) directed GAO to reviewlanguage and culture training for Armyand Marine Corps general purposeforces. For this report, GAO evaluatedthe extent to which these services (1)captured information in training andpersonnel systems on the completionof language and culture predeploymenttraining and proficiency gained fromtraining and (2) developed plans tosustain language skills acquiredthrough predeployment training. GAOanalyzed service documents andinterviewed cognizant officials. "

Download or read book Language and Culture Training written by Sharon Pickup and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dept. of Defense (DOD) has emphasized the importance of developing language skills and knowledge of foreign cultures to meet current and future needs and is investing millions of dollars to provide language and culture predeployment training to its general purpose forces. DOD has also noted that such training should be viewed as a long-term investment and that training and personnel systems should better account for the knowledge and skills of service members acquired through training to help manage its forces. This report reviewed language and culture training for Army and Marine Corps general purpose forces. It evaluated the extent to which these services (1) captured information in training and personnel systems on the completion of language and culture predeployment training and proficiency gained from training and (2) developed plans to sustain language skills acquired through predeployment training. Includes recommendations. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.

Download or read book Military Training Continued Actions Needed to Guide DoD s Efforts to Improve Language Skills and Regional Proficiency written by Sharon L. Pickup and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, and in the foreseeable future, military operations require U.S. personnel to work alongside multinational partners and among local populations. The DoD has placed a greater emphasis on transforming language and regional proficiency capabilities, which includes cultural awareness. This testimony summarizes recommendations on DoD's efforts to develop language skills and regional proficiency and the steps DoD has taken to implement these prior recommendations. Specifically, the testimony addresses the extent to which DoD has: (1) developed a strategic plan to guide its language and regional proficiency transformation efforts; and (2) obtained the information it needs to identify capability gaps and assess risk.

Download or read book Military Training Actions Needed to Further Improve the Consistency of Combat Skills Training Provided to Army and Marine Corps Support Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In conventional warfare, support forces such as military police, engineers, and medical personnel normally operate behind the front lines of a battlefield. But in Iraq and Afghanistan-both in U.S. Central Command's (CENTCOM) area of responsibility-there is no clear distinction between front lines and rear areas, and support forces are sometimes exposed to hostile fire without help from combat arms units. The House report to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010 directed GAO to report on combat skills training for support forces. GAO assessed the extent to which (1) Army and Marine Corps support forces are completing required combat skills training; (2) the services and CENTCOM have information to validate completion of required training; and (3) the services have used lessons learned to adjust combat skills training for support forces. To do so, GAO analyzed current training requirements, documentation of training completion, and lessons learned guidance; observed support force training; and interviewed headquarters officials, trainers, and trainees between August 2009 and February 2010.

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Download or read book Military Training written by Sharon Pickup and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent extremist movements and ongoing military operations have prompted the DoD to place greater emphasis on improving language and regional proficiency, which includes cultural awareness. This report assesses the extent to which DoD has: (1) developed a strategic plan to guide its language and regional proficiency transformation efforts; and (2) obtained the info. it needs to identify potential language and regional proficiency gaps and assess risk. To conduct this assessment, the auditor analyzed DoD's Defense Language Transformation Roadmap, reviewed the military services' strategies for transforming language and regional proficiency capabilities, and assessed the range of efforts intended to help identify potential gaps. Illus.

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Download or read book Language and Culture Training written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and Culture Training: Opportunities Exist to Improve Visibility and Sustainment of Knowledge and Skills in Army and Marine Corps General Purpose Forces

Download or read book Counterinsurgency Field Manual written by The U.S. Army Marine Corps and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the U.S. military invaded Iraq, it lacked a common understanding of the problems inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns. It had neither studied them, nor developed doctrine and tactics to deal with them. It is fair to say that in 2003, most Army officers knew more about the U.S. Civil War than they did about counterinsurgency. The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual was written to fill that void. The result of unprecedented collaboration among top U.S. military experts, scholars, and practitioners in the field, the manual espouses an approach to combat that emphasizes constant adaptation and learning, the importance of decentralized decision-making, the need to understand local politics and customs, and the key role of intelligence in winning the support of the population. The manual also emphasizes the paradoxical and often counterintuitive nature of counterinsurgency operations: sometimes the more you protect your forces, the less secure you are; sometimes the more force you use, the less effective it is; sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction. An new introduction by Sarah Sewall, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, places the manual in critical and historical perspective, explaining the significance and potential impact of this revolutionary challenge to conventional U.S. military doctrine. An attempt by our military to redefine itself in the aftermath of 9/11 and the new world of international terrorism, The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual will play a vital role in American military campaigns for years to come. The University of Chicago Press will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to the Fisher House Foundation, a private-public partnership that supports the families of America’s injured servicemen. To learn more about the Fisher House Foundation, visit www.fisherhouse.org.