RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
Full-Spectrum US Armed Forces operations comprise two aspects: Combat Warrior and Civil Affairs Warrior. Because occupation of an enemy country is the reason for war, and because land-control is the Army mission, US Army is the management center of both aspects of Full-Spectrum US Armed Forces operations during occupation of an enemy country.
Civil Affairs takes over where Combat succeeds and is protected by Combat during occupation/building of an enemy’s homeland.
Given the Combat-guaranteed condition of the Civil Affairs mission, diplomatic and financial occupation/building activities are subordinated to and in support of US Army management in particular and Full-Spectrum US Armed Forces operations in general. During an occupation, US Armed Forces — US Army in over-all lead — manage but do not substitute for the expertise of other branches of government. Those other branches exercise their expertise under management of the land-control force. An occupation rests on land-control. As long as an occupation persists, therefore, over-all management of it is assigned to the land-control force, Army specifically and to some extent Marines, and US Armed Forces generally. (Marines are a land-attack, not a land-control force.) This arrangement precludes jurisdiction and policy battles as between Paul Bremer and Ricardo Sanchez during the early years of the occupation — that is what it was, although regrettably not so conceived, and even more regrettably not finished up — of Iraq. General Sanchez should have had authority to manage all aspects of that occupation.
Educational, law enforcement and industrial expertise from their homeland is marshaled by Full-Spectrum US Armed Forces teams to energize occupation/building activities.
When no aggressive impulse remains in the now-formerly enemy homeland, Combat and Civil Affairs Warriors redeploy to their homeland. Full-Spectrum US Armed Forces operations comprise two aspects: fight to victory and build to excellence.
AMDG – VICTORY
