SUPPORT TO COMPLEX OPERATIONS

CAGS Efforts on Building U.S. Capabilities for Complex Operations

Courtesy of Indiana University

"At Indiana University we have faculty and staff with a great deal of knowledge and experience in languages, culture and international law, and we are pleased that we can make these assets available to a program that is so important to national and world security," Indiana University President Michael McRobbie, pledging Indiana University's assistance to the Indiana National Guard's Camp Atterbury-Muscatatuck Center for Complex Operations, April 7, 2009. (For the full press release on the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between Indiana University and the Indiana National Guard, see http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10550.html.)

CAGS supports efforts at Indiana University that engage in teaching and research activities concerning aspects of complex operations, and CAGS provides support to state and federal efforts to prepare military and civilian personnel for complex operations. Indiana University's involvement includes:

Being a strategic partner with the Indiana National Guard's development of the Camp Atterbury-Muscatatuck Center for Complex Operations (CAMCCO), a traing and research center in south central Indiana for civilian and military agencies faced with challenges of responding to counterinsurgency, peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, and nation-building.

Providing assistance to the Interagency Afghanistan Integrated Civilian-Military Pre-Deployment Training being held at CAMCCO by the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, including:

-Input on development of training scenarios;

-Participation as observers and subject matter experts in training sessions;

-Providing lectures on counterinsurgency and the rule of law in Afghanistan at the Foreign Service Institute, Washington, D.C.

Contributing to development of the Handbook on Military Support to Rule of Law Operations being produced by U.S. Joint Forces Command.

Designing and implementing language and culture training programs for military and National Guard personnel and ROTC cadets preparing for military careers, including the following programs designed and implemented by the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR):

-Intensive Afghan language and culture training programs for military and National Guard officers to be deployed in Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan;

-Intensive Afghan language and culture training programs for National Guard personnel being deployed to Afghanistan as members of Agribusiness Development Teams;

-Strategic language and culture program for ROTC cadets funded by the National Security Education Program.

Participating in the annual International Homeland Defense and Civil Support Perspectives Forum sponsored by the Commander of NORAD and USNORTHCOM.

Conducting research on complex operations, such as the CAGS research project on Counterinsurgency in India: Lessons Learned (London: Routledge, 2009).

Engaging in teaching in areas such as public safety management, homeland defense and security, and counterinsurgency and rule of law operations.

Last updated: 11/06/2009