THE OPERATIONALIZATION OF CULTUREFOR THE MILITARY– APRE-DEPLOYMENT TRAINING DRAFT
Journal Title: UNKNOWN - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
With the emergence of population-centric operations, an urgent need for considering the cultural factors of the Area of Operation emerged, and the missing link between the awareness of the cultural aspects of threats, and operational plans that consider them, has not yet been found and fully utilized in military planning and conducting of operations. Therefore, we face a need for the skill of the operationalization of culture, understood as the identification of features of the culture of any object of the activity, which are vital for military activities, and integrating such knowledge and skills into the processes of shaping security in the AOO. The main purpose of the article then, is to outline a draft model of the operationalization of culture for the military, based on theoretical research and results of surveys conducted by the Author in US Army War College, the Coalition and Central Planning Group Multinational Teams at US Central Command, and the Turkish Air Force Command. The interviews were performed with a total of 20 people of different nationalities that were engaged in operations and the operationalization of culture processes, including from the USA, Italy, Germany, Armenia, Nepal, Romania, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Australia and Canada, the majority of whom were engaged in ISAF and Iraqi Freedom operations , in July 202. Combined with chosen modeling and social science theories, the research results enabled the creation of a general model of the predeployment operationalization of culture at the strategic, operational and tactical levels.
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Kamila TROCHOWSKA
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