Secret Weapon: High-value Target Teams as an Organizational Innovation

Authors

Christopher J. Lamb, Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Evan Munsing, Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

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Description

This study argues that interagency teams were a major catalyst in turning around the Iraq War, and that they will disappear from America’s arsenal unless the knowledge base supporting the innovation can be secured. Most explanations credit the dramatic reduction in violence in Iraq between 2007 and 2008 to new U.S. leadership, the surge in U.S. forces, and/or U.S. financial support to Sunni tribal leaders. In contrast, we argue that the United States employed an underappreciated organizational innovation—interagency teams—to put insurgent clandestine organizations on the defensive and give population security measures a chance to take effect.

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

3-2011

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Recommended Citation

Lamb, Christopher J. and Munsing, Evan, "Secret Weapon: High-value Target Teams as an Organizational Innovation" (2011). INSS Strategic Perspectives. 39.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/inss-strategic-perspectives/39