Ep. 14 - "Assessing Emerging Trends" with COL Michael Loos

Modern War Institute

John Amble

Government, News

4.7 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The MWI podcast sits down with COL Michael Loos, commander of the Army Asymmetric Warfare Group, to discuss how they work to support the operational force through observation and analysis of emerging technologies and tactics. We also talk the AWG's approach to training and preparation of units and leaders.

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0:00.0	Welcome, Modern War listeners. I'm Captain Jake Moraldi. Today on the podcast we'll be talking to
0:04.8	Colonel Michael Lowe, the commander of the Army Asymmetric Warfare Group, about how his organization
0:10.8	assesses emerging trends in warfare and their proponancy for an outcomes-based mode of training and
0:16.3	instruction. As always, the views in this podcast are the opinions of the respective participants and do not constitute the position in the United States government.
0:29.7	Please take the time to like the Modern War Institute podcast on iTunes and make sure to check out the other things that the Modern War Institute's doing on MWI.usma.edu.
0:41.6	And be on the lookout for our slate of podcasts in November, including General Retired Michael
0:45.2	Hayden, the former NSA and CIA director, as well as Modern War Institute fellow Major
0:50.2	General Retired Bob Scales.
0:53.9	This is the Modern War Institute podcast.
0:58.7	Well, Colonel Luce, thank you for coming down and doing the podcast with us today.
1:02.3	I want to lead off for the folks that may not have an understanding of what the Anasymmetric Warfare Group is and what it does.
1:09.3	Can you give us kind of a once over the world as to what the purpose of the AWG is?
1:15.5	Sure.
1:16.4	The U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group, AWG, is a operational unit assigned to the U.S. Army
1:25.0	Training and Doctrine Command.
1:26.5	It's a direct report to the commanding
1:28.2	general. It's an organization that's been in existence for about 10 years, starting from
1:34.6	the unfortunate high water point of IED proliferation in Iraq and Afghanistan, circa 2004-2005
1:43.1	time frame. Then the Department of the Army established the Joint IED. Iraq and Afghanistan, circa 2004-2005 timeframe.
1:50.3	Then the Department of the Army established the Joint IED Task Force, excuse me, the IED task force of which the Acevedro Warfare Group was born from and the Joint IED defeat
1:58.4	organization was also born from. One became a joint entity and one became an army entity.
2:03.8	The AWG focused on assisting units with becoming more combat adept, more ready for the problems that units faced in a counter-insurgency environment
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