FEIWS Concept Brief

1. United States Naval Academy Forum On Emerging and Irregular Warfare Studies (FEIWS) CAPT Tom Robertson, Senior Director robertso@usna.edu 410-293-6262 FEIWS Concept Brief

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

3. HYBRID WARS Emerging Security Challenges TERRORISM IRREGULAR TRADITIONAL DISRUPTIVE

4. 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.”

5. USNA CHARTER:Non-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)

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. FEIWS Concept • Collaboration • Coursework development • Outside speaker collaboration through Special Operations Command Interagency Partnership Program and others

9. Progress at USNA: Emerging Warfare/ Irregular Warfare (Some examples)

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

11. 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 O’Connell, 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

12. Findings USNA FEIWS is currently an ad hoc and unfunded group. Possible partners, synergies (international collaboration) or funding sources – 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 linking with U. S. Military and other government agency capabilities.

13. Questions? robertso@usna.edu

14. Background slides

15. 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 • Interdisciplinary cooperation

16. 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)

17. Example Course - HH386 The History of Modern Counterinsurgency • Block 1 – The Nature of Irregular Warfare • Block 2 – Counterinsurgency case studies: British Afghanistan and Malaya, French Indochina and Algeria, Soviet Afghanistan among others • Block 3 – Insurgency and COIN Theory • Block 4 – The U. S. Experience with Irregular Warfare (1776 to Present) • Block 5– Non-state entities and emerging warfare