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Issue 70, 3rd Quarter 2013 ON THE EDGES OF WAR Beyond Sequester Awaiting Cyber 9/11 JOINT FORCE QUARTERLY Inside Issue 70, 3rd Quarter 2013 Editor Col William T. Eliason, USAF (Ret.), Ph.D. JFQ Dialogue Executive Editor Jeffrey D. Smotherman, Ph.D. Supervisory Editor George C. Maerz From the Chairman 2 Production Supervisor Martin J. Peters, Jr. Have You Renewed Your Commitment Yet? By Bryan B. Battaglia Senior Copy Editor Calvin B. Kelley 4 Copy Editor/Office Manager John J. Church, D.M.A Forum Internet Publications Editor Joanna E. Seich Executive Assistant Ryan Heggs, J.D. Executive Summary Design Amanda Drake, Maureen Nugent, Guy Tom, 6 and Jessica Reynolds A Western Insurgency in Afghanistan By Robert Egnell 8 U.S. Government Printing Office Forward-deployed Medical Assets and the COIN Offensive Printed in St. Louis, Missouri 15 by By David S. Kauvar and Tucker A. Drury 21 The Way Ahead for Human Terrain Teams By Christopher J. Lamb, James Douglas Orton, Michael C. 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McNair Washington, DC 20319 Telephone: (202) 685-4220/DSN 325 FAX: (202) 685-4219/DSN 325 Email: [email protected] JFQ online: ndupress.ndu.edu 3rd Quarter, July 2013 ISSN 1070-0692 PUBLISHER Features GEN Martin E. Dempsey, USA Unpacking Cyberwar: The Sufficiency of the Law of Armed Conflict in the PRESIDENT, NDU 70 MG Gregg F. Martin, USA Cyber Domain By Kyle Genaro Phillips ADVISORY COMMITTEE Awaiting Cyber 9/11 By Clifford S. Magee RADM John N. Christenson, USN Naval War College 76 Brig Gen Thomas H. Deale, USAF Air Command and Staff College On Military Creativity By Milan Vego Col Mark Desens, USMC Marine Corps Command 83 and Staff College Ambassador James B. Foley National War College The New Operational Paradigm: Operation Odyssey Dawn and the Maritime 91 BGen Thomas A. Gorry, USMC Dwight D. Eisenhower Operations Center By James G. Foggo III and Michael Beer School for National Security and Resource Strategy Maj Gen Scott M. 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Submit articles for consideration ABOUT THE COVERS to the address on the opposite page or by email to [email protected] “Attention A&R Editor” in the subject line. For further information, see the guidelines on the NDU Press Web site at ndupress.ndu.edu. Front cover: Soldier provides security from Black Hawk during mission over Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Joint Force Quarterly is published by the National Defense University Press for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. JFQ is the (U.S. Army/Brendan Mackie). Table of contents shows Chairman’s flagship joint military and security studies journal (left to right) Soldier observes security during ceremony designed to inform members of the U.S. Armed Forces, allies, and to open new soccer field in Kandahar City (U.S. Army/ other partners on joint and integrated operations; national security Breanne Pye); Seaman monitors surface contacts aboard policy and strategy; efforts to combat terrorism; homeland security; USS Kearsarge, deployed in support of maritime security and developments in training and joint professional military education to transform America’s military and security apparatus to operations (U.S. Navy/Corbin J. Shea); MV-22B Osprey meet tomorrow’s challenges better while protecting freedom today. lands during operations at sea (U.S. Marine Corps/Kyle N. Runnels); and F-35 Lightening II, assigned to 442nd Test The opinions, conclusions, and recommendations and Evaluation Squadron, moves into position at Nellis Air expressed or implied within are those of the Force Base, Nevada (U.S. Air Force/Lawrence Crespo). contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Defense or any other agency of the Federal Government. ndupress.ndu.edu DOD (D. Myles Cullen) Chairman meets Marines stationed at U.S. Embassy, London me, this means making choices that uphold From the Chairman the reasons why we serve. An Uncommon Life Our choices must preserve the unique Why We Serve ethos of our profession of arms. Deployed in Afghanistan, Army Staff Sergeant Rachel Baranek put it this way: “I believe that being part of a bigger organization than myself and here are as many reasons to Like any family, we understand the representing something bigger than myself is serve the Nation as there are importance of making tough decisions to my way of earning my freedom and my way Servicemembers. Some join for balance competing challenges. General of life, and that of my family.” T honor, some for a challenge, and George Marshall famously stated, “Don’t Generations before Rachel have some for more concrete reasons. I once knew fight the problem, decide it.” He knew that answered a similar call to live an uncom- a Soldier who signed up on a dare. simply railing against our challenges was mon life—a call embodied by the inscription Regardless of why we join, most Sol- choosing not to choose. at the base of “Old Simon” in Antietam diers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast- Our family has some tough choices National Cemetery: “Not for themselves, but guardsmen continue to serve because of the ahead as we deal with rising risks and declin- for their country.” This spirit must continue camaraderie we forge with our brothers and ing dollars. I cannot predict all the choices to be our guide. sisters in arms. These bonds of trust extend or their consequences. But I can share with Our officers and enlisted personnel from those in uniform to the loved ones who you how I will approach them. In every have to remain more than simply competent support us, and they connect today’s force case, I will be guided by my commitment to practitioners of the art of war. They must with those who have already served and with ensure that we have the best trained and best continue to be men and women of character, those who will. This trust makes us who we equipped military on the planet and that we worthy of standing alongside past generations are—it makes us a military family. keep our nation immune from coercion. To and leading this generation into the future. 2 JFQ / issue 70, 3 rd quarter 2013 ndupress.ndu.edu The Mission worry about providing for the military family or unsustainable compensation.