{"product_id":"understanding-complex-military-operations-9780367600877","title":"Understanding Complex Military Operations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, America faces security challenges unlike any it has faced before, many of which requiring lengthy U.S. involvement in stability operations. These challenges are exceedingly dynamic and complex because of the ever changing mix and number of actors involved, the pace with which the strategic and operational environments change, and the constraints placed on response options. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents a series of case studies to inspire active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations. The case studies highlight dilemmas pertaining to the story of the case (case dilemma) and to its larger policy implications (policy dilemma). The cases stimulate readers to get inside the heads of case protagonists with widely differing cultural backgrounds, professional experiences, and individual and organisational interests. Overall, \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Complex Military Operations\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the reader to recognize the importance of specific national security related issues and their inherent dilemmas, deduce policy implications, and discern lessons that might apply to other â perhaps even non-security related â areas of public policy, administration, and management. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume will be of much interest to students of conflict prevention, transitional justice, peacebuilding, security studies and professionals conducting field-based operations in potentially hazardous environments. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'The case method is a natural addition to training and education for complex operations. When the Case Center of the Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy was asked to participate, we shared an analytical technique that would apply experiential learning in a new way. The central question for students of complex operations is: confronted by a new environment, how does an expert practitioner interpret the situation and reach new insights? There are many similarities that practitioners face in Iraq and Afghanistan, but successful operations in one environment is not wholly a recipe for success in the other. Teaching with the case method builds the analytical, decision-making skills that are not case, or lesson, dependent. The case study method and the practitioners who contributed to this volume have established a solid foundation for future complex operations' --- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCharles Dolgas, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'The origins of this case studies volume was a collaboration between the nascent Center for Complex Operations and the Naval Post Graduate School, with the aim of improving the ability of the U.S. Government to prepare for civil–military cooperation in counterinsurgency, irregular warfare and stability operations. Complex operations are tough! As soldiers, policy makers, peacekeepers, academics and other experts engaged in complex operations, we continue to face challenges, even after a decade of civilian-military cooperation in Iraq and Afghanistan. These case studies are designed to enhance the learning and analytical processes and better prepare professionals for the range of complex operations. And maybe, the next time we find ourselves shoulder-to-shoulder doing the difficult and necessary work inherent in complex operations, things will be just a little bit easier' ---\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid A. Sobyra, Office of the Secretary of Defense\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword, \u003cem\u003eAmbassador John E. Herbst (Ret.)\u003c\/em\u003e 1. Complex Operations: Connecting Scholarship and Practice, \u003cem\u003eKaren Guttieri and Volker Franke\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Policy Questions\u003c\/strong\u003e 2\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Road to Good Intentions: British Nation-building in Aden, \u003cem\u003eScott Smitson \u003c\/em\u003e3. The Declarations of Independence: The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRudy L. Hightower II \u003c\/em\u003e 4.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eMozambique: A Chance for Peace, \u003cem\u003eAnn L. Phillips\u003c\/em\u003e 5. Basra: Strategic Dilemmas and Force Options, \u003cem\u003eJohn Hodgson\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Security Providers\u003c\/strong\u003e 6. Security by Contractor: Outsourcing in Peace and Stability Operations, \u003cem\u003eVolker Franke 7. \u003c\/em\u003eLeading Healing in a Broken Unit, \u003cem\u003eEdward H. Powley and Scott N. Taylor 8. \u003c\/em\u003eRight and Wrong, Balanced on the Edge of a Spear: U.S. Forces at a Mosque in Baghdad, \u003cem\u003eJoshua Potter\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Coordination Challenges\u003c\/strong\u003e 9. The Kuwait Task Force: Postconflict Planning and Interagency Coordination, \u003cem\u003eDennis Barlow\u003c\/em\u003e 10. Dynamics of Humanitarian Assistance: Civil Affairs in the Horn of Africa, \u003cem\u003eJessica Piombo\u003c\/em\u003e 11. CORDS Campaign of Pacification, \u003cem\u003eRufus Phillips\u003c\/em\u003e 12. Security by Drones: The Global Market for Remote-Controlled Warfare, \u003cem\u003eRebecca LeFebvre\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePart IV:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSecurity and Development Program Challenges\u003c\/strong\u003e 13. Dynamic Tension: Security, Stability, and the Opium Trade, \u003cem\u003ePeter Curry\u003c\/em\u003e 14. A Penny for Your Thoughts, a Nickel for Your Heart: Buying Popular Support for Counterinsurgency, \u003cem\u003eJustin Gorkowski\u003c\/em\u003e 15. Reintegrating Child Soldiers, \u003cem\u003eKim Fletcher\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePart V: Analytic Cases\u003c\/strong\u003e 16. Whole of Society Conflict Prevention: A Case Study on Kenya’s Success Contrasted with Failures in Afghanistan and Iraq, \u003cem\u003eLisa Schirch\u003c\/em\u003e 17.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eMilitary Intervention and Diplomatic Engagements in Libya: A Collage of Policy, Force and Law, \u003cem\u003eAnna F. Triponel and Paul R. Williams\u003c\/em\u003e 18. The Iraq War: Efforts during Conflict to Address Past Atrocities and Seek Accountability, \u003cem\u003eSandra L. 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