Protection Warfighting Function Professional Media List
By Protection Journal
| Protection, 2023
Annual Issue
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< 6 mins
This list is an important reference for the professional development of
all protection leaders in the Army. Continuous self-development is one of
the ways that we can maintain and improve our skills, challenge and refine
our beliefs, and reach our full potential in an ever-changing world. These
resources will improve our understanding of the protection warfighting
function and its role in the diverse myriad of Army missions. These
resources are intended to complement our professional military education
and serve as a means of continuing education between professional military
education courses. This list is a living document that is under continuous
revision. Suggestions and recommendations are welcome and can be sent to
<usarmy.leonardwood.mscoe.mbx.protection-fmp@army.mil>.
Protection
7 Seconds to Die, A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh
War, John F. Antal, Casemate, 2022, ISBN 978-1-63624-123-4. The
Nagorno-Karabakh War was the first war in history to be won primarily by
robotic systems, and its impact on the protection warfighting function
cannot be overstated.
The Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control, Malcolm K. Sparrow, Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN
978-0521872102. This book is dedicated to the science and art of creating
coherent, over-arching protection programs for federal, state, and local
governments and organizations faced with dozens of unrelated and sometimes
highly technical protection, risk reduction, response, and safety
responsibilities and efforts.
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win,
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, St. Martin’s Press, 20 October 2015, ISBN
978-1-25006-705-0. Detailing the mindset and principles that enable sea,
air, and land (SEAL) units to accomplish the most difficult missions in
combat, this book explains how to apply them to any team, family, or
organization. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic, such as cover and
movement, decentralized command, and leading up the chain, explaining what
they are, why they are important, and how to implement them in any
leadership environment.
Breaking Doctrine Podcast, Episode 7: “Protection,”
Major Chris Parker, Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate, Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, 2021, available on various podcast applications. This podcast,
featuring Major General James E. Bonner (Commanding General, Maneuver
Support Center of Excellence, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri) and Brigadier
General Naïve F. Knell (former Commandant, U.S. Army Military Police
School, Fort Leonard Wood), discusses the protection warfighting function,
one of the largest and most diverse of the warfighting functions.
AUSA 2023: Homeland Defense Seminar: The Future of Homeland
Defense—Setting the Theater for Multi-Domain Operations, Army Multimedia and Visual Information Division, 10 October 2023,
<https://www.dvidshub.net/video/899919/ausa-2023-homeland-defense-seminar-future-homeland-defense-setting-theater-multi-domain-operations>. Major General James E. Bonner chairs a high-level panel discussing
power projection from the homeland, with an emphasis on protection.
Protection-focused opening remarks are delivered by General Glen D.
VanHerck, commander of the U.S. Northern Command and the North American
Aerospace Defense Command.
Nuclear Weapons Effects Simulation, Luis Palacios,
Defense Threat Reduction Agency, 9 November 2022, <https://www.dvidshub.net/video/863746/nuclear-weapons-effect-simulation>. This is a Research and Development Nuclear Technologies Department,
Defense Threat Reduction Agency-developed visualization video of the
simulated effects of a 10-kiloton nuclear detonation against military
units at various distances from ground zero. The video is intended only as
a simulation to better aid warfighters in understanding what types of
effects to expect after a low-yield nuclear detonation.
Protection (Strategic Landpower IRP PT 3), Jennifer Hunt
et al., U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 23 June 2023,
<https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/podcasts/23slirp-3/>.
This podcast explores the potential role of the National Guard in
strengthening cybersecurity defenses as a result of the rising prevalence
of cyber threats. It also addresses the complexities of air and missile
defense, which necessitate advanced technologies, strategic planning, and
international cooperation. It concludes by highlighting the role of solid
defense mechanisms in deterring potential aggressors, thereby preserving
peace.
Critical Infrastructure Protection: Assessing the Risk in the Post
Pandemic, Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center, 15
September 2021, <https://hdiac.org/webinars/critical-infrastructure-protection-assessing-the-risk-in-the-post-pandemic/>. This webinar examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has posed new
challenges for critical infrastructure protection, including the
identification of decision makers and organizational responses to
incidents. Many institutions are facing emerging threats and hazards as
they return to regular operations, and this session reviews traditional
and emerging risks and discusses the steps needed to safely manage the
overall change in risk paradigm.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2d
edition), Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Random House, 2010, ISBN
978-0-81297381-5. This update of the 2007 classic discusses risk, future
planning, and the role of an almost infinite number of highly unlikely and
unforeseen events—“a must read” for the protection planner.
United States Bomb Data Center (USBDC) Explosives Incident Report
(EIR): 2022, U.S. Bomb Data Center, Huntsville, Alabama, 2022, <https://www.atf.gov/file/181946/download>. This short booklet reviews the 966 bombing incidents that occurred
in the United States in 2022, and discusses bombing data for the last 5
years.
“The Maneuver Enhancement Brigade is the Support Area Command
Post,”
Military Review Online Exclusive, Colonel Patrick E.
Proctor et al., U.S. Army , October 2018, <https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/Army-Press-Online-Journal/documents/Proctor-Barber.pdf>. The authors of this article underscore the significance of
cybersecurity in modern defense architectures, asserting that as warfare
increasingly shifts to the digital realm, robust cyberdefense measures are
integral to ensuring national security. They advocate for continual
innovation and upgrades of cybersecurity systems to counter evolving
digital threats, effectively reinforcing defense mechanisms.
History
The Bay of Pigs, Howard Jones, Oxford University Press,
2008, ISBN 9780199743810. This is a dramatic account of the disastrous
attempt to overthrow the prime minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, in April
1961. Drawing on recently declassified Central Intelligence Agency
documents, Jones deftly examines the train of self-deceptions and missteps
that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs.
Ignoring warnings from the ambassador to Cuba, the Dwight D. Eisenhower
presidential administration put in motion an operation that proved nearly
unstoppable, even after the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. Meanwhile,
both the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon had voiced
confidence in the outcome of the invasion.
Delaware’s Ghost Towers: The Coast Artillery’s Forgotten Last Stand
During the Darkest Days of World War II
(2d edition), William C. Grayson, AuthorHouse, 2005, ISBN
978-0-7414-4906-1. This short book explores how, when faced with depressed
economic conditions prior to World War II, our Army responded to a new and
revolutionary threat and goes on to describe how we protected a key
section of our coastline throughout the war.
Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War,
Richard M. Ketchum, Holt and Company, 1997, ISBN 978-0-712665025. In the
summer of 1777, under General John Burgoyne, the British launched an
invasion of America from Canada. It was the campaign that was supposed to
crush the rebellion, but instead resulted in a series of battles that
changed America’s history and the history of the world.
Fiction
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War, P.W. Singer
and August Cole, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, ISBN 978-0-544-70505-0.
This very popular protection-heavy fictional novel has aged extremely well
and is worth a reread, given today’s latest international climate and
developments.