Culture: The New Key Terrain Integrating Cultural Competence into JIPB

摘要

The purpose of this monograph is to provide operational commanders and staff with a glimpse of the potential of the non-lethal power of culture in warfare. Cultural competence is 'the fusion of cultural understanding with cultural intelligence that allows focused insight into current operations.' The author suggests that it may be possible to weaponize culture, specifically through the use of cultural intelligence. To do this, commanders and staffs must be able to deconstruct each actor's culture to determine key relationships, dependencies, and vulnerabilities. These actors include allies, neutrals, adversaries, and local populations. The monograph may help to convince operational leaders that a systems approach to culture is the best method of achieving cultural competence. After establishing why culture has become they new key terrain in Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (JIPB), the author suggests modifications to the JIPB process and ways to incorporate cultural competence into campaign design using a systems approach.