FOREWORD
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This handbook provides insights into Operations Other Than War, highlights major preventive medicine lessons, and provides Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) for the soldier. The information in this handbook does not replicate that presently found in doctrinal publications. It is not intended to serve as a guide for the conduct of operations and training. Rather, this handbook is designed to highlight information and lessons that are applicable to the unique environment offered by OOTW.
The OOTW efforts pose many unique challenges not faced by our military forces in recent operations. Of utmost concern is the need to care for the health and welfare of deployed U. S. forces. Disease, the lack of sanitation and death are daily circumstances associated with the collapse of governmental infrastructure, civil war, natural disasters, and civil disturbances.
Training for OOTW should have minimal impact on a unit s primary mission of fighting and winning in combat; in fact, peace enforcement employs most combat skills. An important requirement for success in OOTW is the successful application of our warfighting skills. OOTW are not new missions and do not require major changes to the mission-essential task list (METL); rather, they require a better understanding of the environment in which they are conducted.
The key to sustaining a unit s warfighting ability and becoming proficient in expanding peace operations is TOUGH, REALISTIC TRAINING!
JOE
N. FRAZAR III
Brigadier
General, USA
Deputy
Commanding General for Training
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