FEIWS Concept Brief

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FEIWS Concept Brief
United States Naval Academy Forum On Emerging
and Irregular Warfare Studies (FEIWS)

• CAPT Tom Robertson, Senior Director
• robertso_at_usna.edu
• 410-293-6262

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Introductions

• CAPT Tom Robertson, USN Director
• LTC Jon Klug, USA - Director
• LT J. T. Kadz, USN - Deputy Director
• FEIWS (pronounced Fuse)

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Emerging Security Challenges
TERRORISM
IRREGULAR
TRADITIONAL
DISRUPTIVE
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Questions for Midshipmen

• What factors drive changes in our human world?
• What most determines who wins wars?
• Are you doing your best to understand these
  factors and prepare yourself to lead in our
  changed and changing world?

Every day you spend here at USNA, you are
building your foundation for understanding and
for leadership.
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USNA CHARTERNon-Technical (Group 3) Courses

• Teach midshipmen how to think critically
• How do I solve a complex problem when there is
  no checklist or easy answers?
• Historical depth, language skills, regional
  expertise and cultural knowledge (LREC)

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FEIWS Charter

• To increase understanding and facilitate
  discussions of emerging and irregular warfare.
• Focus on culturally, technologically and
  historically informed discussions of contemporary
  military operations and tactics.
• Link theory/ doctrine with practice and to
  leverage academic scholarship to help understand
  real-world military operations.

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FEIWS Approach

• Faculty (military and civilian) collaboration to
  share papers, conference presentations, recent
  cultural or combat experience and research
  projects (USNA and international).
• Coursework development
• USNA Yard-wide presentations by group members or
  outside speakers to faculty, staff and midshipmen
  followed by small-group discussion or classroom
  visits.

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FEIWS Concept

• Collaboration
• Coursework development
• Outside speaker collaboration through military
  and OGA connections (i.e. Special Operations
  Command Interagency Partnership Program)

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Progress at USNA Emerging Warfare/ Irregular
Warfare (Some examples)
HH367A Mercenaries, Empire War History of India Pakistan Afghanistan
HH367B History and Culture of Iran
HH367C War, Conflict, and Insurgency in Africa
HH367D The U.S. in Africa since 1700
HH367E Modern Pakistan, Militant Islam and America
HH372 The Golden Age of Piracy
HH377A Religion and Violence
HH377B History of Technology
HH377E History of Americas War on Drugs
HH385 The U.S. Marine Corps
HH386A History of Modern Counterinsurgency
HH386B The American Way of War
HH386C The History of Airpower
HH377A History of Technology and Cyber-warfare
HH462B Chinese Art of War
HH485A Disruptive Technology and Education
NE 203 Ethics and Moral Reasoning for the Naval Leader
NP 430 The Ethics of Irregular Warfare
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FEIWS Center of Excellence (Proposed)

• Counter Terror (CT)
• Reference CTC, U. S. Military Academy, West Point
• Counter Proliferation (CP)
• On-going collaboration with USSOCOM IAPP and OGAs
  in support of Special Operations Support Teams
  (SOST) and others request for connection to
  academia
• Counter Threat Finance (CTF)
• On-going collaboration with DHS ICE and ASD SO/LIC

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Nine FEIWS-affiliated military faculty members
have been deployed from USNA as advisors in
embedded training teams or to senior operational
staffs in Afghanistan and Iraq.

• History Department
• CAPT Hagerott Strategic Initiatives Group,
  NTM-A, 2009-2010
• CAPT Felker Command Historian, NTM-A, 2010-2011
• CAPT Robertson Embedded Afghan Advisor, NMAA,
  NTM-A, 2010
• Augment Pilot, CJTF 82 Afghanistan, 2008
• Augment Pilot, MAG-16 REIN Iraq, 2006
• LtCol Berry, USMC MEU Det OIC, AV-8B, 2012
• Embedded
  Advisor, NMAA, NTM-A, 2010
• LtCol Aaron OConnell, USMCR, Gen. Petreaus
  Staff, ISAF-A, 2010-2011
• LTC Klug, USA Strategic Planner/ GSG-5 Advisor,
  IJC, 2012-2013
  Deputy SIG, NTM-A, 2009-2010
• Company Commander/ Regimental Planner, 3ACR, 2003
• Political Science Department
• Lt Fletcher Embedded Advisor, NMAA, NTM-A, 2010
• Math Department
• LT Heineike Embedded Advisor, NMAA, NTM-A, 2010
• Chemistry Department
• LT Bodemer Embedded Advisor, NMAA, NTM-A, 2010

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Internship Opportunities

• FEIWS has negotiated for internship opportunities
  in which midshipmen spend summer training blocks
  at
• U. S. Army War College Peacekeeping and Stability
  Operations Institute (USAWC PKSOI)
• Johns-Hopkins Applied Physics Lab National
  Security Analysis Department (JHU/APL)
• Marine Corps University

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Findings

• USNA FEIWS is currently an ad hoc and unfunded
  group. Possible partners, synergies
  (international collaboration) or funding sources
  stand-alone USNA Warfare Center of Excellence
  and/or connection with Cyber Center.
• Relationships within the IW community are
  essential to improving our groups, staffing the
  war effort and also in disseminating lessons
  learned.
• Potential exists to create a single point of
  contact reachback pool of expertise for use by
  combatant commanders connecting the warfighter to
  U. S. military and other government agency
  capabilities.

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Questions?
robertso_at_usna.edu
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Background slides
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USNA Strengths in this Area

• High level of midshipman interest- How can I get
  involved ?
• Early foundation for future thought and
  development (Mids not yet indoctrinated)
• USNA grads become small unit leaders soon after
  graduation where the rubber meets the road
• Military instructors experience active
  involvement -recently returned from Iraq,
  Afghanistan and Horn of Africa, etc.
• Interdisciplinary cooperation

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USNA Challenges in this Area

• Core course syllabi not specifically designed to
  target Irregular and Emerging Warfare
• Targeted courses available to only a small
  percentage of the student population
• Current progress is largely based on military
  instructor initiative if the instructor
  transfers, the course often dies
• Lack of coordination with post-graduate and other
  institutions (need networking/ relationships to
  help build the right foundation)

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Example Course - HH386A The History of Modern
Counterinsurgency

• Block 1 The Principles and Nature of Irregular
  Warfare
• Block 2 Counterinsurgency case studies British
  Afghanistan and Malaya, French Indochina and
  Algeria, Soviet Afghanistan among others
• Block 3 Irregular Warfare and COIN Theory
• Block 4 The U. S. Experience with Irregular
  Warfare (1776 to Present)
• Block 5 Non-state entities and emerging warfare