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, Key water-food-energy demands in Afghanistan's Helmand River watershed: (1) Zaranj, Nimruz Province and Sistan Basin (at Afghan-Iranian border); (2) Central Helmand Agricultural Zone, Helmand Province; (3) Kajaki Reservoir & Hydropower Plant, Helmand Province; and (4) Kandahar City.
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Socio-Cultural Analysis (SCA) has evolved rapidly over the past decade as conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have forced the DOD to reappraise the techniques used to collect information about the populations in conflict zones. As these two major conflicts wind down, the DOD must recognize that SCA must evolve again due the changing responsibilities...
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... resources in the most downstream portion of the Helmand River supporting Zaranj have dwindled due to withholdings at the Kajaki dam and various irrigation canals. (Figure 4) The urban population in Zaranj has grown in the past 10 years due an influx of EDPs migrating from rural Mimruz because of loss of livelihood (death of livestock, inability to grow crops) and loss of water for human consumption. Subsequent investment in the city has led to increased infrastructure. ...
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... opinions are heavily based on publica- tions and research from the SMA "Megacity-RSI" project, in which USPACOM, ERDC, the Naval Post- graduate Center, and NSI Inc. were the primary researchers. 1 Given the nature of SMA's objectives and the issues most relevant to the SMA "Megacities-RSI" research effort, we will only discuss those issues directly related to phase 0 operational planning ( figure 24). This is because most of the SCA research over the past decade has been in phase II-IV environments, which has a very different time frames, information collection capabilities, and operational goals than phase 0. ...
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... Urban Security project has taken up the challenge of identifying those metrics that can au- tomatically collected during phase 0 operational planning that will support USPACOM's frame- works. As illustrated in figure 24, and discussed heavily in many chapters of UM-RSI and SCA-RSI, certain data can be collected inexpensively and without human risk in areas under phase 0 condi- tions. The Urban Security project is currently analyzing how many of the USPACOM HC metrics can be ascertained from population surveys, host nation census, media analysis, and remote sensing techniques to provide neighborhood scale information. ...
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... remote collection techniques diminish as con- flicts increase, the increased number of soldiers on the ground will provide access to greater amounts of unstructured and lower quality data (from a social science perspective). Figure 24, From`DataFrom`Data to Analysis' in the Shaping Phase Figure 25 presents the phasing model commonly used. However, COL Pursley has recently argued that the phasing model doesn't represent the best framework for understanding campaign plan- ning. 1 He envisions a Pre-Phase 0, when the intelligence community and military researchers en- gage in dialogue through collaborative knowledge tools to analyze the human, physical and cyber domains to develop real-time situational awareness for planning. ...
