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Lessons Learned and New Approaches to Operational Assessments Recognizing Systems in Afghanistan
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kilcullen, David J. Upshur, William P. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | FeatuReS | 87 Until it was overhauled in 2011, the assessments process in Afghanistan’s Regional Command South was mired in 240 metrics and indicators—some of which were uncollectable while others were entirely irrelevant. It lacked focus, failed to define the problem, and was divorced from decisionmaking cycles. That is to say, it was representative of how operational assessments are usually conducted. There was a general understanding that measuring the conflict environment was vital to the mission and to operational success. But what that was supposed to look like and how it was supposed to be accomplished were never articulated. What resulted was a frenetic approach that tried to measure the universe—attempting to analyze everything and accomplishing little. The years 2009 and 2010 brought a sense that the soon-to-be decade-long war in South Asia needed a new and better defined focus. The campaign in Afghanistan had evolved to a universal, all-encompassing mission, a set of tasks for which the term mission creep is euphemistic. These tasks included counterinsurgency with all its associated complexities, counterterrorism, stability operations, developing rural and urban economies, improving governance, countering corruption, improving the rule of law, promoting female empowerment, building government institutions as well as Afghan military and police organizations, and countering the growth and By WIllIAM P. UPSHUR, JONATHAN W. ROGINSKI, AND DAVID J. KIlCUlleN |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://indianstrategicknowledgeonline.com/web/Th%20of%20war%20Lessons%20Learned%20and%20New%20Approaches%20to%20Operational%20Assessments.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
