Operational Environment Enterprise US TRADOC G2 Intelligence Support Activity Red Diamond Complex Operational Environment and Threat Integration Directorate Fort Leavenworth, KS Volume 5, Issue 6 JUN 2014 INSIDETHIS ISSUE Hybrid Threat Train the Trainer Hybrid Threat .............. 4 at 18-22 August 2014 Reader Survey ............ 5 Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Coup d’état CAR ......... 8 US Army TRADOC G2 Intelligence Support Activity (TRISA) CDET Threat .............. 15 Complex Operational Environment and Threat Integration Directorate (CTID) Fires........................... 19 Regular Forces Active Supporters Tajikistan ................... 22 Irregular Forces Noncombatants ATN and CTID ........... 26 Criminal Organizations MSEL Design ............ 27 Terrorism Relevant Population IED Volgograd ........... 31 Big Changes in Store for CTID’s Threat Tactics Instruction by Jennifer Dunn, Threat Assessment Team (DAC) OEE Red Diamond published monthly August 2014 is the next CTID Hybrid Threat Train the Trainer (HT TTT) course. CTID by TRISA at CTID hosted a Hybrid Threat Train the Trainer (HT TTT) class here at Fort Leavenworth in March 2014. The class was a resounding success with over 60 students traveling Send suggestions to from installations and units both within the CONUS and OCONUS. For those of you CTID that have participated, one of the unique things you may have noticed about this ATTN: Red Diamond course is that it serves a large and diverse audience. Our students come from a Dr. Jon H. Moilanen variety of units and duty positions. They include observer/controllers at training CTID Operations centers, to designated OPFOR, to battalion S2s, to members of the capability BMA Contractor BMA Contractor development community. and Angela Wilkins Over the past year as our student population has grown and we have transitioned Chief Editor the delivery of the course from a one-instructor-over-eighty-students format to BMA Contractor two-instructors-over-sixteen format, we have had a lot of lessons learned. These lessons learned have led to a significant shift in the way ahead for CTID resident course training on Threat Tactics. This article will lay out the changes that are coming for future Threat Tactics training. (continued at page 4) OEE NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTION UNLIMITED RED DIAMOND TOPICS OF INTEREST by Jon H. Moilanen, CTID Operations and Chief, Red Diamond Newsletter (BMA Ctr) This issue of the Red Diamond newsletter spotlights the propellant, or in some cases all three considerations. August 2014 CTID Hybrid Threat Train the trainer course For training, a Master Scenario Events List (MSEL) and related updates being instituted to ensure an organizes exercise messages by several categories, opposing force (OPFOR) relevant for training. Results of subject, time, date, and/or message number. Relevant a recent CTID survey to Red Diamond users provide key messages in a MSEL can shape effectiveness in a feedback being incorporated into future lessons. Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE) exercise. One article assesses the IED bombing of the train Examining an OPFOR company-size detachment (CDET) station in Volgograd, a hub between the Caucasus model illustrates combined arms principles based on region and Moscow. Similarly, turmoil is standard fare functional analysis. The CDET is typical in a complex OE in the Central African Republic (CAR) as seen in the with threats and/or hybrid threat. article that is Part Two of the three-part series Email your topic recommendations to: reviewing the 2013 rebel offensive. An article on Tajikistan concentrates on the military variable and Dr. Jon H. Moilanen, CTID Operations, BMA CTR operations in this operational environment (OE). [email protected] and Another article focuses on how range of an indirect fire Angela M. Wilkins, Chief Editor, BMA CTR weapon system can be increased through modifications [email protected] of the firing system, the projectile or munition, the CTID Red Diamond Disclaimer The Red Diamond presents professional information but the views expressed herein are those of the authors, not the Department of Defense or its elements. The content does not necessarily reflect the official US Army position and does not change or supersede any information in other official US Army publications. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and source documentation of material that they reference. The Red Diamond staff reserves the right to edit material. Appearance of external hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by the US Army for information contained therein. Complex Operational Environment and Threat Integration Directorate Know the Threats Know the Enemy We are at War and Combating See https://atn.army.mil/ Training for Operations Terrorism CTID Operational Environment Page Lebanon TRISA Training Adaptive Soldiers in Subterranean OE TRISA Combating Terrorism (CbT) Poster No. 09-14 U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Intelligence Support Activity (Photo: U.S. Army Image-LTC S. Lumbaca) Red Diamond Page 2 Director’s Corner: Thoughts for Training Readiness CTID by Jon Cleaves, Director, Complex Operational Environment and Threat Integration Directorate (TRISA-CTID) The August 2014 Hybrid Threat Train the Trainer (HT TTT) course at Fort Leavenworth, based on the enrolled students to date, signals a full class load. We continue to collect requests for attendance on our stand-by list but can currently make offers (no guarantees) for stand-by attendance in the 18-22 August 2014 course. CTID is studying how to increase the availability of the value-added training on threats and the hybrid threat, and may have some additional options in FY 2015. One training option that is currently available is a CTID mobile training team (MTT) that can come to your unit or activity and provide a condensed three-day or full five-day hybrid threat course. Several units have invited us to their unit locations and used Army Foundry Intelligence Training Program funding to support this TRADOC G2 Operational Environment Enterprise (G2 OEE) training. Army Regulation 350-32, Army Foundry Intelligence Training Program, states roles and responsibilities among Army Commands, Army Service Component Commands, Direct Reporting Units, US Army Reserve, and Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States in the use and programming of foundry training resources. Department of the Army Civilian and government contractor military analysts at CTID can shape an MTT with unit or activity leaders to the particular needs of a unit. A recent success story supported one segment of an annual training event for a military intelligence company. Selected junior enlisted, noncommissioned and commissioned officers of the unit, as well as other members of battalion and brigade staffs participated in a three-day hybrid threat train the trainer course focused on the US Army’s Training Circular 7-100 series with threat concepts and systems, tactics and techniques, and practical exercises to improve situational awareness and understanding of complex operational environments, persistent conflict, and threats and hybrid threat. JON Red Diamond Page 3 BIG CHANGES IN STORE FOR CTID’S THREAT TACTICS INSTRUCTION (cont. from page 1) For the past fourteen years CTID has offered a resident course of instruction on the Hybrid Threat; it has more recently been known as the “Hybrid Threat Train the Trainer.” As many of you know, this course acted as an introduction to Hybrid Threat concepts, actors, actions, and operations. As the Army is transitioning from a war-time Army to a peace- time Army and as it shifts training focus from Mission Rehearsal Exercises (MRXs) to Decisive Action training events, the best way CTID can support these changes is to modify the delivery of our instruction on Threat Tactics. The initial round of significant changes to the course of instruction will be presented to students in March of 2015. Figure 1. Photo collage from multiple small-group classroom sessions in March 2014 HT TTT The March 2015 course will not be a Hybrid Threat Train the Trainer. Instead, CTID will introduce its first “Threat Tactics” course. The course of instruction will shift from a familiarization fire of threat tactics to a more in-depth detailed training event focused on tactics. In order to provide this revamped course of instruction, CTID will spend the next nine months developing new course material. In general, the content of the new class will minimize discussion of actors and maximize time on tactics and various functional areas. Blocks of instruction on OPFOR Mission Essential Task List (METL), Information Warfare (INFOWAR), Reconnaissance (RECON), Air Defense, and Fires will be developed with a deeper look into these topics. Red Diamond Page 4 Additionally, new practical exercises will be developed to reinforce the lessons from the revised course material. The course will culminate in one day dedicated to offensive tactics and operations and a second day dedicated to defensive tactics and operations. The intent of all these changes is provide a course of instruction that will provide a better, more thorough understanding of threat tactics for the training community. Expect invitations for the new course of instruction to go out sometime in the Fall of 2014. If you or your organization would like to be included on the distribution list for the invitation for this new course of instruction, email your request to [email protected]. In an effort to ensure we are meeting all the needs of all