Military Police

FALL 2014

Military Police contains information about military police functions in maneuver and mobility support, area security, law and order, internment/resettlement, and police intelligence operations.

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MILITARY POLICE . 19-14-2 5 By Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne C. Miller S trategic landpower refers to the application of landpower to achieve strategic outcomes across the range of military operations. Strategic landpower addresses the human aspects of war and encompasses strategic and expeditionary maneuver. Strategic maneuver involves building partner capacity, employing forces to deter and conducting regional engagements. Expeditionary maneuver focuses on rapidly deploying and employing scalable, tailored, operationally signifcant forces. The future operational environment will be accompanied by an increase in hybrid strategies and tactics. Urbanization and increased populace access to information are increasing the momentum of human interaction and presenting challenges for the United States in controlling instability. Increased operations in urban settings will require the protection of critical assets and the populace. U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Pamphlet (Pam) 525-8-5, U.S. Functional Concept for , provides a framework for the engagement warfghting function and activities that the U.S. Army can use to people, security forces, and governments. 1 The achievement of objectives across the range of military operations will require Army forces to build partner capacity for security and the rule of law. Military police forces support strategic landpower through the three military police disciplines: police operations, detention operations, and security and mobility support. Within the strategic maneuver context, unique military police technical capabilities and expertise support of civil security and civil control lines of effort are critical in enabling the rule of law. For expeditionary maneuver, military police enable maneuver forces by focusing efforts on maintaining civil order, mitigating threat, protecting personnel and assets, and preserving commanders' freedom of action, regardless of the operational environment. In many operational environments, the threat is more criminal than conventional in nature. Through the integration of police intelligence operations, military police provide a critical understanding of the criminal environment, develop linkages between criminal actors, establish critical correlations in time and space, and identify trends and patterns in criminal activity. These actions contribute to the targeting process, enabling the selection and prioritization of crime and criminal targets. As the Military Police Corps Regiment attempts to defne the military police role in strategic landpower, military police leaders must inform maneuver commanders that military police— y Protect the force by preserving combat power. y Enable the rule of law during all phases of a campaign. y Build partner capability and capacity among police and corrections personnel. y Provide commanders with expertise on targeting hybrid threats. y Provide maneuver support that enables the commander's freedom of action. y Detain populations or groups that pose a threat to military operations. As stated in Army Doctrinal Publication (ADP) 1, The , the ability to manage the human aspects of war before, during, and after all phases of a campaign will determine the success or failure of a campaign. 2 Military police have a critical strategic landpower mission as the Army executes its principal roles of preventing shaping the operational environment, and winning the Nation's wars. Military police disciplines apply in situations short of war and during the decisive operations of war. As stated in "Strategic Landpower: Winning the Clash of Wills" (a white paper signed by the Army Chief of Staff, the Marine Corps commandant, and the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command), ". . . the Nation should measure the value of forces that operate on land as much by their contributions to sustaining the international order and the security of our international partners and allies as by their contributions to war." 3 Military police contribute to the sustainment of peace through regional engagements and efforts to build partner capability and capacity. In regional engagements, military police help build the host nation's capability by coaching, mentoring, and training regional forces on the rule of law. Promoting the rule of law involves establishing policing, judicial, and corrections systems for the fair and equitable treatment of citizens by the host nation government. Military police are the Army experts on policing and corrections and are already conducting regional engagements to train defense forces on police tasks. The defense forces of many countries have close or formal ties to their police forces. The primary mission of host nation defense forces often includes police and stability tasks, causing military police to be in high demand for security cooperation efforts. To support an understanding and promote the rule of law, military police conduct police training programs abroad that cover the full range of police tasks that support judicial systems, law enforcement, and penal systems. Areas of critical training include escalation of force, prison security and procedures, proper treatment of detained individuals, investigations, the fght against organized crime, effective

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