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Title: Telling the Brigade Story: A Case Study of U.S. Army Public Affairs as an Engine of Operational Effects, Organizational History, and Strategic Narrative
Post by: rangerrebew on April 23, 2017, 08:53:15 am

Telling the Brigade Story: A Case Study of U.S. Army Public Affairs as an Engine of Operational Effects, Organizational History, and Strategic Narrative
by Randy Brown

Journal Article | April 22, 2017 - 12:21am
 

A Small Wars Journal and Military Writers Guild Writing Contest Finalist Article
 
At the height of the “Afghan Surge” in 2010-2011, more than 100,000 U.S. and coalition troops were committed to a counterinsurgency (COIN) mission of “clear, hold, and build” on behalf of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA): Clear the countryside of insurgent fighters. Hold the terrain, alongside Afghan security forces. Build infrastructure, commerce, and rule-of-law.

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/telling-the-brigade-story-a-case-study-of-us-army-public-affairs-as-an-engine-of-operationa