Irregular Warfare (IW C of E) for Department of Defense (DoD)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

April 2006 - DoD launches Execution Roadmap initiative for Irregular Warfare identifying
tasks which must be accomplished in the next fiscal year.

September 2007 - Irregular Warfare (IW) Joint Operating Concept (JOC) Version 1
approved by Commander Special Operations Command, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and Secretary of Defense.

1 December 2008 - DoD Directive NUMBER 3000.07 released with the subject of Irregular
Warfare that "establishes policy and assigns responsibilities for DoD conduct of IW and
development of capabilities to address irregular challenges to national security..."

1 January 2009 - The Irregular Warfare Centre (IW Centre)      is transformed from a
business unit of Delphi International Research, acquired as a subsidiary, and established
to support DoD Directive NUMBER 3000.07 with the segmentation of an Irregular Warfare
Center of Excellence specifically designed to support the development of innovative
capabilities to address irregular challenges to national security.

(Note: The Irregular Warfare Centre and it's IW Center of Excellence were validated by the
USPTO as having first use of a specific Irregular Warfare center dedicated to military
training, education and best practices associated specifically with Irregular Conflict since
2002 under Delphi International Research's "Joshua Group" capabilities and Irregular
Warfare specified services area.)

January 2009 - The Irregular Warfare Centre acquires the majority of Delphi International
Research's assets and services to add capabilities in converging intelligence, psychology,
and anthropology to mitigate risk in today's network-centric warfare and complex operating
environments.

January 2009 - The Irregular Warfare Centre embraces the Whole of Nation (WoN)
approach related to the training of US military forces as recommended by Daniel E.
Gardner, Director of the Readiness and Training, Policy and Programs Directorate within
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in “Overcoming National
Demarcation in Building Partnership Capacity & Interoperability". With refinement, the WoN
is used to mass community of interest and purpose towards IW innovation and problem
solving.

The concept of WoN directly applied to the context of Irregular Warfare was initiated by BG
David Grange (Ret.) through McCormick Tribune Foundation workshops and Irregular
Warfare series publications.

February 2009 - The Irregular Warfare Centre acquires and consolidates a significant
number of small Internet web-hosted sites and URLs related to Irregular Warfare,
Asymmetric Warfare, Hybrid Warfare, and Unconventional Warfare to achieve better
community knowledge continuity.

February 2009 - The Irregular Warfare Centre secures additional industry partnerships for
broader intelligence and special operations-related training and service offerings provided
by proven vendors with historical past performance expertise.

May 2009 - The Irregular Warfare Centre creates an Irregular Warfare Discussion Group to
encourage cross industry collaboration and provide a mechanism to understand various
Irregular Warfare needs and applicable solutions.

May 2009 - The Irregular Warfare Centre creates the YouTube Irregular Warfare Channel in
an effort to identify and categorize IW-relevant media videos for conflict insights and
innovative solutions.

June 2009 - The Irregular Warfare Centre procures a significant amount of additional SOE
and OSS documentation and training materials from the UK Public Records Office and US
National Archives to further supplement its UNCLASSIFIED Special Training School
courses.

July 2009 - The Quadrennial Defense Review Update July 15, 2009 highlights top themes
that the Pentagon will address have Irregular Warfare and High End Asymmetric Threats at
the forefront of strategy with DoD "attempt[ing] to institutionalize lessons from the ongoing
wars".

October 2009 - Vice Adm. Robert S. Harward, deputy commander for U.S. Forces
Command, told attendees at the annual C4ISR Journal Integration Conference that
potential adversaries using a combination of conventional and irregular tactics to fight a
hybrid-style war requires the U.S. to deal with this irregular warfare, including emerging
hybrid threats, and commanders must be able to understand, manage and act on the
information they're receiving.

January 2010 - On January 4, 2010, The Center for a New American Strategy (CNAS)
published a report written by MG Mike Flynn, the Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence (CJ2) for
the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan (along with Captain Matt
Pottinger, USMC and Paul D. Batchelor, DIA). The report, entitled “Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for
Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan” details a number of the problems with
intelligence in Afghanistan – and also provides a number of proposed solutions to the
problem.   Members from the IWC were invited to and participated in JFCOM's IW
Intelligence Training Workshop to assist in fixing the very intelligence gaps MG Flynn
requested---due to the fact that IWC has been recognized as historically providing IW
relevant intelligence to the military and intelligence community in multiple theaters.

March 2010 - Recognizing the need for more Research & Development in the areas of
Network-centric Warfare and surge attacks, the Irregular Warfare Centre has created a
sister organization, The Center for Network-centric Warfare.

Coming Soon: IWC Publication in Hard Copy
"The Sage Robin: Special Forces Lessons Learned Post Qualification- What IW Practitioners
Should Know"