Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin articles

Recent articles from Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin

Always out front.
January 1, 2011... Cultural Competence and the Contemporary American Soldier From Valley Forge to Kandahar, the American Soldier remains the same resilient, intelligent and independent warfighter he or she has always been. The American Soldier is a model of courage and battle bravery. The battlefields are...

CSM forum.
January 1, 2011... Cross-Cultural Competency Training In 2002 we began cultural awareness training with the establishment of the U.S. Army Culture Center at Fort Huachuca. The original concern was counterterrorism, but growing concern for cultural awareness ultimately led to the establishment of the TCC....

Cross-cultural competence.
January 1, 2011... The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Culture Center (TCC) at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, is proud of this unique issue devoted to the challenges and dimensions of cross-cultural competence (3C) in U.S. military training. The aim of this special issue of the MIPB is to expand upon...

Some thoughts on cultural mirror imaging.
January 1, 2011... What is mirror imaging? Basically it is observing or assessing someone else's experiences from our own worldview. We all do it. We do it daily. It is just more pronounced and at times operationally dangerous when we do mirror imaging in a foreign land, especially within non-Western societies....

Creating culturally astute leads: Joint and Combined Fires University providing innovative cultural education.(Reprint)
January 1, 2011... This article, from the September-October 2010 issue of Fires, is reprinted with permission. Despite growing awareness among Army leaders to include foreign cultural education as a part of training and operational planning, the roles that culture and religion play in successful missions and...