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Issue 78, 3rd Quarter 2015 JOINT FORCE QUARTERLY ISSUE SEVENTY-EIGHT, 3 ISSUE SEVENTY-EIGHT, An Interview with Martin E. Dempsey RD QUARTER 2015 21st-Century SOF American Land Power in Korea Joint Force Quarterly Founded in 1993 • Vol. 78, 3rd Quarter 2015 http://ndupress.ndu.edu GEN Martin E. Dempsey, USA, Publisher MajGen Frederick M. Padilla, USMC, President, NDU Editor in Chief Col William T. Eliason, USAF (Ret.), Ph.D. Executive Editor Jeffrey D. Smotherman, Ph.D. Production Editor John J. Church, D.M.A. Internet Publications Editor Joanna E. Seich Copyeditor Erin L. Sindle Art Director Marco Marchegiani, U.S. Government Printing Office Advisory Committee COL Michael S. Bell, USA (Ret.), Ph.D./College of International Security Affairs; Maj Gen Brian T. Bishop, USAF/Air War College; LTG Robert B. Brown, USA/U.S. Army Command and General Staff College; BG Guy T. Cosentino, USA/National War College; Col J. 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Jones, Jr.); U.S. Marines assigned to Force Reconnaissance Platoon, Maritime Raid Force, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct HALO jump during category 3 sustainment training in Louisburg, North Carolina (U.S. Marine Corps/Andre Dakis); Chief Cryptologic Technician (Technical) Sailor assigned to amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor hugs daughter after returning from 4-month deployment supporting Pacific Partnership 2013 (U.S. Navy/Todd C. Behrman) About the Cover In this Issue Issue 78, 3rd Quarter 2015 Lieutenant Colonel Christine Mau, 33rd Operations Group deputy commander—notably first woman Dialogue fighter pilot accepted into F-35 2 From the Chairman JOINT FORCE QUARTERLY program—completes initial F-35A Lightning II training flight at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, on May Forum 5, 2015 (U.S. Air Force/Marleah Robertson) 14 Executive Summary 3 ISSUE SEVENTY-EIGHT, An Interview with Martin E. 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Or write to: Editor, Joint Force Quarterly Book Reviews NDU Press 260 Fifth Avenue (Building 64, Room 2504) 125 Harlem’s Rattlers Fort Lesley J. McNair Washington, DC 20319 and the Great War Reviewed by Alan L. Gropman Telephone: (202) 685-4220/DSN 325 Email: [email protected] 126 The Modern Mercenary JFQ online: www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jfq/jfq.htm rd Reviewed by T.X. Hammes 3 Quarter, July 2015 ISSN 1070-0692 U.S. Marine Corps M-198 155mm Howitzer gun crew of 4th Battalion, 14th Marines, Mike Battery, Gun 4, at Camp Fallujah engage enemy targets November 2004 (U.S. Marine Corps/Samantha L. Jones) From the Chairman An Interview with Martin E. Dempsey n January 7, 2015, Dr. R.D. Joseph J. Collins: Can you tell us how Chiefs of Staff? That is an impressive set Hooker, Jr., Director of your views on the wars in Iraq and of perspectives on these wars. O Research and Strategic Support Afghanistan have evolved over your at the National Defense University assignments as division commander, General Martin E. Dempsey: I’d like to (NDU), and Dr. Joseph J. Collins, Multi-National Security Transition start with a vignette. I arrived in Iraq late Director of the Center for Complex Command–Iraq [MNSTC-I] com- June 2003 and took command of the 1st Operations in the Institute for mander, acting U.S. Central Command Armored Division. I had watched devel- National Strategic Studies, interviewed commander, U.S. Army Training and opments from Riyadh, where I was the General Dempsey at NDU. Giorgio Doctrine commander, Chief of Staff of program manager of the Saudi Arabian Rajao and Joanna E. Seich transcribed the Army, and Chairman of the Joint National Guard. There, I was being the interview. fed a pretty steady diet from my Saudi 2 Dialogue / From the Chairman JFQ 78, 3rd Quarter 2015 interlocutors about what was going well and what was not. I was also getting fed a heavy diet of Sunni Islam, obviously, and so I, like Bing Crosby, went on the road to Baghdad. When I got to Baghdad, there was a sense of constant transition almost to the point of turmoil. For instance, I arrived just after Lieutenant General Dave McKiernan pulled out the CFLCC [Coalition Forces Land Component Command]. If you remember the CFLCC story, he was told, I wasn’t in the room, but I was led to believe LTG McKiernan was told by Secretary [Donald] Rumsfeld to take as much risk going out as coming in, which sounds like something Secretary Rumsfeld would have said. So CFLCC had literally taken this command and control architecture, unplugged it, and went back to Kuwait in the process of redeploying. V Corps, as you recall, was left behind with General [Ricardo] “Rick” Sanchez. And my sense was that V Corps was little suited as a command and control headquarters, understaffed and under-resourced, funda- mentally a tactical headquarters. My sense was that we were a bit adrift frankly, at least in Baghdad. I can’t speak to what was happening in General Dempsey (DOD) Mosul, Ramadi, or Diyala Province. But in Baghdad, there was a bit of almost mission, how would you articulate the That was in 2003.