ATP 3-24.3: Cultural and Situational Understanding

ATP 3-24.3 Cultural and Situational Understanding

ATP 3-24.3

Cultural and Situational Understanding

Army · ATP · Apr 2015 · 70 pages

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Understanding culture is essential in conducting irregular warfare. Irregular warfare requires a deliberate application of an understanding of culture due to the need to understand a populated operational environment, what specifically is causing instability, the nature of the threat, and the ability to work with host-nation governments and security forces. Often, training and operations rely on cultural training and education to build cultural expertise, but this may not provide the cognitive link to situational understanding. This ATP does not simply focus on culture, which often generalizes aspects of a society, does not account for diversity, and rarely represents a specific working identity (as in useful and relevant identity, which is distilled or created for a purpose) for an entire region, nation, or even an area.

DesignationATP 3-24.3

EditionApr 2015

StatusActive

Pages70

FunctionRecon Intel

CollectionCurrent Doctrine

DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTION: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. Headquarters, Department of the Army April 2015 This publication is available at Army Knowledge Online (https://armypubs.