properly trained on the requisite tasks – with the need to accomplish both the
training and the mission simultaneously.
Event Description.
This lesson is based on the paper “Training for the Deployed Brazilian Battalion
at MINUSTAH: A Model Consolidation,” by Colonel José Ricardo Vendramin
Nunes, Commander of the Brazilian Peace Operations Joint Training Center, 14
January 2015.
Comments.
Related references:
“Ten Years of MINUSTAH and CCOPAB,” by Lieutenant Colonel (Ret)
Carlos Alberto de Morales Cavalcanti, Doctrine Adviser, CCOPAB, 29
September 2014.
“Brazil’s Involvement in Peacekeeping Operations: The New DefenceSecurity-Foreign Policy Nexus,” by Monica Hirst and Reginaldo Mattar
Nasser, Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF), September
2014.
Link to CCOPAB: http://www.ccopab.eb.mil.br/index.php/en
Lesson Contributor: David Mosinski, PKSOI
c. TOPIC. Incorporation of Stability Operations into U.S. Army
Training and Education ( 1399 )
Observation.
The U.S. Army remains at risk of growing the next generation of leaders (both
officers and NCOs) that do not understand the complexity of stability operations,
risking re-learning the mistakes of Iraq and Afghanistan again.
Discussion.
During a period of military down-sizing, fiscal austerity, and prioritizing budget
considerations, the U.S. Army has stated in numerous publications the intention
to retain the hard lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan in stability operations.
Through current doctrine (Unified Land Operations and Decisive Operations), the
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