Commander's Guide to Money as a Weapons System

<p>This Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) handbook assists company- battalion- and brigade-level officers and noncommissioned officers to effectively use money as a weapons system on the counterinsurgency (COIN) battlefield. Coalition money is defeating COIN targets without creating collateral damage by motivating antigovernment forces to cease lethal and nonlethal operations by creating and providing jobs along with other forms of financial assistance to the indigenous population and by restoring or creating vital infrastructure. Money also funds other tools of war. Key lessons: * Money is a valuable weapons system. * Money and contracting in a COIN environment are vital elements of combat power. * Leaders must leverage money and contracting in operations. * Leaders must understand funding programs and contracting. * Brigades often lack internal resource management expertise and knowledge of funding. * Financial management administrative requirements in a combat environment can be extremely burdensome but are necessary for good stewardship. * Financial management expertise and knowledge of funding are critical to successful operations. * Without proactive leadership involvement the potential for extensive fraud waste and abuse of funds exists in the COIN environment. This handbook is a guide and addresses some of the most common funds available to warfighters. Since policies procedures and guidelines change as do sources and amounts of funds available to fund warfighters obtain the latest funding information from the supporting resource manager before taking action to fund warfighters.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>