Roundtables Roundup

Posted By Grim

The SECDEF's office has been very generous in setting up roundtables recently.  There is bound to be one you'd like to listen to, if you're interested in following the war.

There are a couple that were of special interest.

Major General Hertling spoke with us about the disposition of MND-N.  As you know, Multinational Force - Iraq (MNF-I) is the body that stands over and administrates Coalition forces within Iraq.  Beneath them is Multinational Corps - Iraq (MNC-I).  Different Corps-level commands rotate through and become MNC-I; III Corps left a few months ago.  MNC-I is currently the XVIII Airborne Corps.

Beneath MNC-I are the various Multinational Divisions.  These are the battlespace owners, who have division-level assets to assist the several brigades each commands.  So an MND commander is the first level down where you have a tighter focus on a particular set of problems.  For example, Anbar province is MND-West.  [UPDATE:  MNF-W, because the Marines call their units of this size "Marine Expeditionary Forces," not Divisions.  See the comments.]  MND-N contains Diyala, and most of the serious fighting against al Qaeda still going on in Iraq.  MND-Baghdad contains Baghdad itself, including Sadr City.  MND-Central contains a huge sweep of territory across the middle of Iraq, all the way to the Iranian border.  MND-Center South (CS) and MND-South have been non-American Coalition led -- the Poles and the British have large forces there. 

Thus, an update from an MND commander is always worth reading.  One piece of errata -- the reference to MND-C having "three groups of ten members" of al Qaeda mentioned by a blogger is actually from Colonel Wayne Grigsby''s final report on 3/3 BCT's space (the area now belongs to 2/1 AR).  They were part of MND-C, but are not the whole of it.

Read through these roundtable transcripts, or listen to them like podcasts.  They offer an insider's look at how America's servicemen are making the world more secure.

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Roundtables Roundup

The SECDEF's office has been very generous in setting up roundtables recently.  There is bound to be one you'd like to listen to, if you're interested in following the war.

There are a couple that were of special interest.

Major General Hertling spoke with us about the disposition of MND-N.  As you know, Multinational Force - Iraq (MNF-I) is the body that stands over and administrates Coalition forces within Iraq.  Beneath them is Multinational Corps - Iraq (MNC-I).  Different Corps-level commands rotate through and become MNC-I; III Corps left a few months ago.  MNC-I is currently the XVIII Airborne Corps.

Beneath MNC-I are the various Multinational Divisions.  These are the battlespace owners, who have division-level assets to assist the several brigades each commands.  So an MND commander is the first level down where you have a tighter focus on a particular set of problems.  For example, Anbar province is MND-West.  [UPDATE:  MNF-W, because the Marines call their units of this size "Marine Expeditionary Forces," not Divisions.  See the comments.]  MND-N contains Diyala, and most of the serious fighting against al Qaeda still going on in Iraq.  MND-Baghdad contains Baghdad itself, including Sadr City.  MND-Central contains a huge sweep of territory across the middle of Iraq, all the way to the Iranian border.  MND-Center South (CS) and MND-South have been non-American Coalition led -- the Poles and the British have large forces there. 

Thus, an update from an MND commander is always worth reading.  One piece of errata -- the reference to MND-C having "three groups of ten members" of al Qaeda mentioned by a blogger is actually from Colonel Wayne Grigsby''s final report on 3/3 BCT's space (the area now belongs to 2/1 AR).  They were part of MND-C, but are not the whole of it.

Read through these roundtable transcripts, or listen to them like podcasts.  They offer an insider's look at how America's servicemen are making the world more secure.

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