IWTSD identifies, develops and fields capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense to conduct irregular warfare against all adversaries including Great Power competitors and non-state actors, and delivers those capabilities to DOD components and interagency partners supporting U.S. military operations...
The result was a gradual turn towards irregular warfare, led by Rumsfeld and the DoD, designed to ensure 'full spectrum dominance' across all modes of conflict. This pre-dated the insurgency in Iraq and the promotion of counterinsurgency in the US Army by General David Petraeus and others. ...
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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has pledged to maintain or even increase spending in critical mission areas, such as cyber offense and defense, special operations forces, and UAS (Shanker and Bumiller 2011). Due to their usefulness for intelligence collection in irregular warfare (IW) and ...