Overview
Imagine you are assigned as Battalion Training Officer/NCO for an Army Brigade Combat Team. For the last 20 years, your unit has conducted counterinsurgency operations. Your battalion has been notified that it will deploy to a theater of large-scale combat operations, this will be the first large scale combat operation that any unit within your division has participated in.
You have been tasked by the brigade commander to write a three-page essay highlighting the training and operational differences needed to successfully defeat an enemy in this new environment. You must analyze the differences between counterinsurgency and large-scale combat operations and provide an essay that explains the training and operational challenges.
For this assignment, use the following examples as references:
- Counterinsurgency Operations
- Vietnam
- Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan
- Operation Iraqi freedom- Iraq
- Large-scale combat operations
- World War I
- World War II
Utilize at least two outside sources, with at least one being the CSU Online Library. Adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references for this assignment.