Enabling Others To Win in a Complex World: Maximizing Security Force Assistance Potential in The Regionally Aligned Brigade Combat Team - Softcover

Walsh, Liam; Institute, Strategic Studies; Army War College, U.S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1329784642 ISBN 13: 9781329784642

Publisher: Lulu.com, 2015

Synopsis

As the Army downsizes its personnel while still being asked to conduct a wide variety of missions globally, the need for increased effectiveness is paramount. Those interested in the possibilities presented by the Army’s recently developed regionally aligned forces (RAF) concept will find this monograph thought- provoking and of particular interest. While the United States has long recognized the importance of “helping others help themselves,” the author contends that, as Operation IRAQI FREEDOM demonstrated, U.S. Army conventional forces continue to falter in the realm of security force assistance. In a personnel and budgetary constrained environment, doing more with less will become more important, as will the need to build partner capacity. In this monograph, Captain (Promotable) Liam Walsh, an infantry officer and veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, seeks to answer how the Army’s principal tactical formation—the brigade combat team—can best respond to this challenge and opportunity.

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About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LIAM WALSH is currently a student at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leaven­worth, KS. He was commissioned as an infantry officer after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 2006. His first assignment was at Fort Campbell, KY, from where he deployed as a platoon leader to north­west Baghdad for 14 months in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM during the “surge.” After comple­tion of the Maneuver Captains Career Course in 2010, he was assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA, where he twice deployed in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM to southern Afghanistan; in 2010 as an assistant operations officer and in 2012 as both a Stryker rifle company headquarters and headquarters company commander. From 2013 to 2015, Captain Walsh attended graduate school at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in military history from West Point and a master’s degree in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1329784642
• ISBN 13: 9781329784642
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90