Planning Economic Activities to Support Counterinsurgency Objectives. Volume 1.

摘要

The Deputy Commander, USJFCOM, asked an IDA study team to identify how, when, and where military commanders and their staffs should use their economic-related capabilities and tools in Afghanistan. (Economic-related actions in irregular warfare (IW) are viewed as a form of non-kinetic actions, along with communication actions, diplomatic and political actions, and legal actions.) The results of the task would help joint force commanders and their staffs better leverage the economic-related capabilities in an IW campaign, and better counter the capabilities and economic initiatives of the adversary. The IDA team developed examples of courses of actions for three provinces: Helmand, Khost, and Jowzjan. To improve IW capabilities through economic-related actions, the IDA team recommended the following actions: (1) improve the near-term use of economic-related capabilities; (2) explore the use of economic-related capabilities in a single Afghan region in partnership with a forward-deployed military unit and provide that unit with reach-back information on economic- related capabilities, economic-terrain mapping, and tools for planning economic- related capabilities; and (3) improve longer-term capabilities in IW.