The world is experiencing rapid changes in the security sector and this has alarmed the United States Army to seek various ways through which it can transform itself to meet the global security needs. More operations have been carried out in the previous decade and therefore this is a clear evidence that global environment is changing and even tighter operations shall be required in the near future. In this regard, the position of the US Army could be best understood using the contemporary operational environment (COE) (Ott & U.S. 2002). COE is basically the operational environment including the composite conditions that influence the employment of the military forces for the sake of the current and the near future. The COE defines the potential
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This implies that the army shall have to face and combat a lot of challenges during, covered by the COE which is includes the eleven critical factors that are seen in Guatemala. The conflicts cover the physical environment, sociological, demographics, nation will, military capabilities, regional and global relationship, time economics and the stability of the state (Seland, 2012). These are variables that the United States army will prepare itself to combat during the training period. Basing on Guatemala, all these factors are evident. Violence and crime, endemic poverty, weak law enforcement, murder kidnapping theft and armed robbery have been the most serious issues that are currently facing the state of Guatemala. Narco-trafficking is another security issue that has created and organized transitional groups of gangsters which have become indeed potential threats to the local, regional and international interests. Most of these factors are interrelated and sometimes tend to overlap. This means that the United States will have to use a universal approach of invading Guatemala. In addition, the COE approach has highlighted all these factors to be common in all operational environments of the armed forces of the United States (Seland, …show more content…
Even though there is no single nation-state actor is likely to present a peer threat to the United States until 2020 and beyond, there are some net factors that could threaten and defeat the United States military. Guatemala could seek a coalition with another potential state to if it is determined really invade the United States (Carter, 2016). The sum of all the small challenges and threats that are considered to be less potential could yield into an equivalent challenge as that of peer threat. For instance, Guatemala could take advantage of the instable relations that exists between the United States and the Philippines, Afghanistan and other nations which are identified as potential threats to the contemporary operational environment of the United States. On this note, the U.S. army must be ready to counter every possible threat regardless of how minimal it might be because the resultant or the net threat would have the potential of bringing the forces down. Guatemala potential may be unseen but it indeed exists (Carter,
This implies that the army shall have to face and combat a lot of challenges during, covered by the COE which is includes the eleven critical factors that are seen in Guatemala. The conflicts cover the physical environment, sociological, demographics, nation will, military capabilities, regional and global relationship, time economics and the stability of the state (Seland, 2012). These are variables that the United States army will prepare itself to combat during the training period. Basing on Guatemala, all these factors are evident. Violence and crime, endemic poverty, weak law enforcement, murder kidnapping theft and armed robbery have been the most serious issues that are currently facing the state of Guatemala. Narco-trafficking is another security issue that has created and organized transitional groups of gangsters which have become indeed potential threats to the local, regional and international interests. Most of these factors are interrelated and sometimes tend to overlap. This means that the United States will have to use a universal approach of invading Guatemala. In addition, the COE approach has highlighted all these factors to be common in all operational environments of the armed forces of the United States (Seland, …show more content…
Even though there is no single nation-state actor is likely to present a peer threat to the United States until 2020 and beyond, there are some net factors that could threaten and defeat the United States military. Guatemala could seek a coalition with another potential state to if it is determined really invade the United States (Carter, 2016). The sum of all the small challenges and threats that are considered to be less potential could yield into an equivalent challenge as that of peer threat. For instance, Guatemala could take advantage of the instable relations that exists between the United States and the Philippines, Afghanistan and other nations which are identified as potential threats to the contemporary operational environment of the United States. On this note, the U.S. army must be ready to counter every possible threat regardless of how minimal it might be because the resultant or the net threat would have the potential of bringing the forces down. Guatemala potential may be unseen but it indeed exists (Carter,