1/3 ACR

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1/3 ACR OIF Operations and Armor Assessment 8
September 2004
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Purpose/Agenda
Purpose. Provide an overview of 1st Squadron
Operations during OIF and to submit relevant
conclusions regarding the mobility Lethality and
survivability of our equipment
Agenda

• AO Orientation
• Operations employing M1A2 and M2A3
• Armored System Assessment

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AL QAIM HOSTILE ACTIVITY
IED
IED Located
Mine Atk
RPG
Over 250 incidents of contact 9 M1A2s / 6 M2A3s
(70 of Equipment engaged)
Small Arms
Mortar Atk
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Initial Set
Three units abreast conducting border
surveillance one CO conducts border crossing
control (overwatch) and also conducts engagement
with Husaybah One Unit conducts engagement with
Ubaydi and surrounding communities and protects
Squadron LOCs One ACT conducts recon and
surveillance One unit is uncommitted Force
protection is shared by units daily Units rotate
platoons on and off of border surveillance
mission (24/7 operations).
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AO POKORNY
RAWA
C
T Interdict P Prevent violations
HADITHA
HWY 12
Ubaydi
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Al Qaim
T Aerial interdiction P Provide reaction
time, maneuver space, and reaction time
Sadah
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N
Husaybah
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Al Karabilah
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T Defeat Threats P Provide secure environment
T Secure LOCs P Prevent Disruption T Engage
Ubaydi P Promote security/ Deny sanctuary to
destabilizing elements
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T Control Crossing P Prevent violations T
Engage Al Qaim communities P Promote
security/ Deny sanctuary to destabilizing elements
HWB
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B
AO DOOLEY
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T Interdict P Prevent violations
Tiger Base
Log Road
Uncommitted
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T Interdict P Prevent violations
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AO MACK
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Squadron Control Engagement/Reinforcement -
Nomad Air Cavalry Troop - A/O Platoon - CA/IO
- PSYOPs Detach - Chem Recon SEC - PROPHET
II
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Tactical Operations

• Non Lethal Activities
• Information OPNs
• ICDC/Border Police
• Civil Affairs
• City Council
• Sheiks/Clerics

• TTPs
• Armor and INF
• Air Ground
• Asymmetric
• Controlling activities
• TCPs
• Curfew
• Searches
• C2
• Tempo

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• Establish Conditions to Win Tactical Engagements
• Observation over areas where contact is likely
• Observation to detect threat elements
• Postured to initiate contact
• Capable of absorbing and delivering energy
• All Capabilities involved

Direct Correlation Between amount of enemy
contact And Air-Operations
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Conclusions

• M1A1 Tank is very mobile, agile, lethal,
  dependable and essential to survivability in the
  OIF environment
• Both the Abrams and Bradley essential to
  supporting dismounted operations
• Must retain the ability to absorb energy, deliver
  energy and observe clearly both day and night
• Army must retain capability to conduct security
  operations and fight for information
• Uncertainty of combat operations will remain,
  must be equipped for all contingencies

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Questions?
AI-EE-YAH Tiger Squadron
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Back Up Slides
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Commanders Intent
The purpose of this operation is to set
conditions that allow the Iraqi people to govern
and secure themselves. The decisive point is the
state in which the Iraqi people and their
leadership feel responsible enough to assist in
reducing criminal activities and violence against
coalition forces. To achieve this we must ensure
we select and emplace strong Mayors, police
forces and advisory councils that will hold
others accountable for establishing and following
laws. It is also key that Coalition forces
empower and allow the administrative functions
space and time to perform their duties, while
also reducing tension in the communities as a
result of coalition forces performing functions
for the civil administration and by displaying
our dominance unnecessarily. Additionally, it is
important that we find innovative ways to
motivate Iraqi leaders and their people to
embrace responsibility for their communities.
Inherent to achieving the decisive point is
exhausting means to protect our forces, while
also gaining the initiative to defeat the threat.
We will do this by soliciting the support of
Iraqi leaders, building collection cells to
penetrate terrorists groups, thereby finding and
removing those that are working to disrupt our
objectives. Until we reach the point where the
Iraqi people are apprehending the threat, we will
always exert our dominance to identify and defeat
known threats in our AO. At end-state Iraqi
leaders feel responsible for leading their
people, incidence of violence against coalition
forces in our AO is reduced and Tiger Troopers
are prepared to deploy safely back to Fort
Carson.
Iraqization - Intelligence - Infrastructure
- Information - Internalization
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Natural Progression
Establish Internal/interim Government/Functions
Establish Relations with Leaders
Establish Authority Security/Stability

• Presence Patrols
• Foot Patrols
• TCPs/Check Points
• Apprehend Looters
• Curfew
• Demonstrate Capabilities
• Information Operations

• Select a Mayor
• Build Municipal Councils
• Issue contracts
• Build agreements with Sheiks
• Build rapport with Clerics
• Establish Police force
• Establish security forces
• Transportation/Garbage/sewage

• Identify prominent members
• in the community
• Hold meetings with Sheiks
• Ulamah, Hospital Admin
• Former ministry members
• -Communicate with
• professionals

We Are Here
Conducted Throughout
Conducted Throughout
Find Ways to help, gain trust and assist
the Community CA Discretional Funds etc.
Continue to Assert Authority Demonstrate Capabil
ities

• Reduce the Threat
• Target Baath, Fedayeen
• Identify terrorists cells
• Conduct Raids/snatches

Must Reduce Presence / Stop Performing these
functions Give Authority Back (Timing is based on
progress And conditions for self-determination To
begin)
Turning Point
End- State

• Normalcy Established
• Diplomatic ties established
• Foreign Investment
• International Travel
• Forces Reduced

Rule of Law Instituted
Legitimate Government Established

• Leaders embrace objectives, feel
• Responsible for finding criminals
• Police apprehend criminals
• Black market activities reduced
• Looting/vandalism reduced
• Incidence of violence reduced
• Attacks on coalition forces reduced

• Election process identified
• Elections conducted
• Leaders set agendas
• Leaders distribute resources
• Taxes and revenues established
• Courts and prison system established
• NIA is established

Iraqis Leading and Protecting Themselves
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The Challenge
Iraqi Level of Trust Coalition Support

• Considerations
• Requires strong Iraqi leaders
• Higher level of risks accepted
• Indicators of trust need to be developed
• Empower Iraqi Leaders

Very Supportive
Working To Achieve Goals
Coalition energy in Supervisory role
Where we Need to Go
Leaders and People Embrace Responsibility
Mayors, Sheiks Influence people
RISK!! - Allowing Iraqi Functions to
Perform, Not doing their job
Police Apprehend Criminals
Supportive
Somewhat supportive
Establish Authority
Maximum Presence
Appoint leaders
Apprehend Criminals
Conduct Raids
Low Unsupportive
Check Points
Current Operational Approach
Solve Community Problems
Dissent and Anti-Coalition Sentiment Increases
Over Time As we execute government and police
tasks
Very Low Distrustful
Level of Coalition Involvement Direct Action
Number of raids, level of presence, perception of
Coalition Involvement in Government
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Interdict Cross-Border Movement

• Establish eyes on likely avenues
• Understand the enemys crossing
• patterns routes methods
• Position combat power
• permanently to severe/deny LOCs
• Severely disrupt resistance
• cross-border movements

Decisive Operations
Extract Destabilizing Leaders Organizers
Win Tactical Engagements

• Develop methods for gaining
• information
• Motivate people to provide
• information
• Turn information into credible,
• actionable intelligence
• Identify leaders/organizers
• Locate leaders/organizers
• Close with and extract

• Establish eyes to see the enemy
• Understand the enemys
• patterns, TTPs
• Set Conditions for contact
• Destroy the enemy
• Postured to overmatch on
• contact
• Defeat, detect emplacement of
• detect mines IEDs

Security and Stability
Shaping Operations Unemployment/IO/Services
CDC/BG
POLICE
I/O
SPP

• Establish stable power
• and natural gas
• Establish raw materials
• LOCs
• Revitalize infrastructure
• Reduce civil unrest
• through employment

• Recruit quality
• Equip the force
• Train oversee the
• force
• Reduce civil unrest
• through regional
• security

• Improve quality of
• personnel
• Equip the force
• Train oversee the
• force
• Reduce civil unrest
• through local security

• Est TV programming
• personnel
• Est Newspaper Media
• Leaflet distro plan
• Conduct Assessments
• Of I/O effectiveness

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Conceptual Approach
End State

• Impact Metric
• Sovereignty EST
• Recognition
• Investment
• New Order

Leverage Media andother IO Tools to Reinforce
Plan Now For The Next 60 Days

• Impact Metric
• Trust - Rapport Built
• Police themselves
• Self Determination
• Respect regained

• Paticpation
• Sports
• Travel-Diplomatic

Establish Conditions for Functioning Government

• Impact Metric
• Increase in school
• attendance
• People return to Jobs
• Economic growth
• International SPT

Support to an Interim Govt.-Security -Meetings -
IO
ROAD TO STABILITY AND SECURITY
Build Rapport Trust - Confidence
Gain Support of Professionals/LDRs -Doctors -Scho
ol Teachers -Engineers -Clerics
Plan and Coordinate
Security and Visible signs of Improvement IMMEDIAT
ELY
Visible Improvement -Trash removal -Improve
Schools -Improve Hospitals -Traffic Control
Plan and Coordinate

• Establish security
• Focused presence
• Check Points
• Clearing of Areas
• Raids
• Foot patrols
• Surveillance

Current State
Plan and Coordinate
Assess BI - Monthly
30 Days
60 Days
90 Days
120 Days